Dressing the Tree
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By mid December she should have felt overwhelmed; a fluey kid, a teenager with a mountain of teenitude, a festering suspicion that there were important things she’d forgotten, a Christmas tree that only now might, perhaps, have stopped falling over. “It’s a Wonderful Life” was blaring out from some other room “”Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”
Teenagers were an inspiration with their incisive way of seeing the world, she could throw a sheet over all the mess. Screw the forgotten things, they can’t be that important or she’d be able to remember them. It was really lucky that the kid got being sick out of the way before the holidays began. The tree was still looking good. Just hang on in there tree, all you have to do is stay upright, we’ll get you dressed and make you pretty. The sky was crystal blue, sunlight shone in through the window, it was truly overwhelming.
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