What a lovely world we had.
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I had that “Frosty” Little Golden book!!
Guess I’m old LOL (Birthday Wednesday, yep, I’m old)
Back before the collapse.
Bkmrk
Fantastic. What memories!
Wow! Thanks for posting.
It was 1969. I was 8 and my sister was 7. The year before, my father had left his job with an oil company to return to the family farm. My grandfather had cancer, and my dad ran the farm. Money was desperately scarce.
Under the tree that year for my sister and I were a bicycle and a Bible. As an adult with greater understanding of our circumstances at the time, I asked my Mother how she had ever gotten enough money to buy two bicycles. She put back every spare nickle she possibly could for months and months.
The bicycle is, of course, long gone, but I still have the Bible. It is a KJV, black leather cover with a zipper that closed it up. The pages are practically tissue. I'm sure you must know what I'm talking about; those were very common back in the day. It's pretty worn now, but I still love to look at the inscription written in her neat hand.
I miss my parents still, never more than at Christmastime.