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Christmastide – A Manhattan Reflection – Part I

Posted on December 25, 2019December 25, 2019 by CS Humble

It is Christmas morning in Eastland, Texas. The year is 1996. My maternal grandfather and grandmother are still alive. My siblings and cousins and I are sitting in a living room that faces the southern edge of Lake Leon. We are surrounded by innumerable packages, all of them wrapped in shining gossamer paper, piled high near a fireplace that is rarely used. 

I did not sleep the night before, anticipation gives me a heightened sense of the slowness of time. I am overcome with the realization that I have never felt this way before.  

I am thirteen-years-old and I believe in magic.

I hold on to that feeling. 

I never let it leave.

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