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My Father’s Christmas Gift
One of my precious possessions is a picture. I am guessing that it cost about 29 cents at the time it was purchased. My father bought it as a gift for me for my first Christmas when I was six months old. The great Depression was at its depths. Not only was it courageous to have another baby in the face of hard times, but there were other things as well. For I came into a Depression within my own family – I was filling a poignant space left by my older sister, Mary Phyllis, w









