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Three Christmas Stories
By Mary Kay Worth AuthorHouse
Copyright © 2015 Mary Kay Worth
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ISBN: 978-1-5049-0350-9
CHAPTER 1
THE CHRISTMAS BOOTS
December 2014
In mid-December, Mom returned from a shopping spree announcing that she had picked out the boots she wanted Dad to buy her for Christmas. To make it easy, she had the clerk set them aside. Dad had only to take the slip, finish paying for them, and pick them up the next day.
Grumbling in his best Scrooge voice, he followed instructions. He told me that JC Penny's wrapped things up, "Real nice."
On Christmas morning he insisted that the big package be opened last because, "Rosie already knew what it was."
He watched in anticipation. Pop loves a surprise.
As the paper was torn and Mom dug into the tissue paper she said, "There's nothing in here."
"Keep lookin'" said Pop.
She found the first one. Then the second. Shiny red, "ruby slippers" for his Rosie.
"Put 'em on," the prince said to his princess.
"Where'd you get 'em, Pop?" I asked.
"Well," he said, "I went into Jonah's Attic and told them I wanted the ugliest pair of shoes they had. They brought me these. 50 cents."
He had carried them to JC Penny's, had the clerk wrap the "ruby slippers" up in the big boot box, carrying the boots home to wrap in newspaper to hide behind the recliner.
His other annual gifts: a Christmas love card "To My Wife," a box of chocolates, and an angel (for his angel), had already been opened.
Yup. Pop is an 82-year-old romantic, still wooing his bride of 62+ years, this year adding THE CHRISTMAS BOOTS.
No surprises here.
CHAPTER 2
THE CHRISTMAS BABY
December 2012
Around the planet, every year at Christmas church bells ring and angels sing to celebrate the birth of a baby that comes at Christmas.
Helen was alone. Sadly, she had buried both sons and then her husband. Her last year of life was spent in a nursing home. A caseworker sorted through her belongings to get ready to sell her home and auction off everything.
A large cedar chest sold in the auction. It was not empty; blankets filled the chest.
(Continues...)
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