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s trimmed and all aglow oodnight, and

the tree i e iust said g

It's Christmas Eve, soni .< . . . the Lawsons and the Wrights hav

d I are alone.

Mother an Just as We did last year when you

ss you plenty, boy. r wire saying you couhlwt get

and we got you diiierence . _

We mi But there’s this

were at camp leave to come home.

Christmases ery first

‘ng backward; dreaming of with your

h the years to your v ‘ftstoplay

past . . . Christmas when‘ yo old shoe . . t. the Christmas when whole day om he floor playing wr hy to the Ch chemical set

go, when you got hole house.

Last year it

Son ...

‘ st ilay of our lives is still to

re looking ahead, w ihg for the Christ- e to help trim the tree. llbe

not so far away when you wi

home. en this year - though

'Ancl though you’re farther away than ev

there’s a lot of blue water hetwe en you anal our front clo'or here at

home, we lmow that every clay that passes brings alittle closer y when you will come hack to all of us.

the great (la ut the joy of

Christmases Past; h ’ this year by the zrowin: