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Subject: Share Holiday Memories with PaperBackSwap
Date Posted: 12/2/2008 12:12 PM ET
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For a lot of us, this is a very special time of year.  My family celebrates Christmas; others celebrate different holidays this month that are equally meaningful to them - Eid al-adha on December 8th, Chan more...
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Date Posted: 12/2/2008 10:37 PM ET
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I grew up in the 50's.  Back then, us kids didn't have Playstations or cell phones or ANY of the things kids have now.  We lived in a small city, in a 10-family tenament house.  My father worked two jobs& more...
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Subject: Christmas Memory
Date Posted: 12/2/2008 10:58 PM ET
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I believe I was about 8 or 9 when I learned a huge lesson about what I guess now we would call Karma. In my family, keeping secrets about gifts that may be coming was paramount. Everything was very more...
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Date Posted: 12/3/2008 2:36 AM ET
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I have so many Christmas memories that it is hard to find just one to share.   But I'll tell one on my mama that amazes me still today. Mama always worried about mo more...
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Subject: A Special Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 6:37 AM ET
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I grew up in the direst kind of poverty. In my earliest memories, my family (mother, father, 11 children) lived in an abandoned st more...
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Subject: Christmas Secrets
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 8:49 AM ET
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We did not live in abject poverty, but, all my young life, my Dad worked hard, sometimes 3 jobs until all the kids were in school and Mom took a part time job to give him some relief. Money was always tight, but we never went without whatever was needed. I was still living at home, but had just started a new job a couple of months before Christmas when I was 18. I more...
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Subject: Greatest Intangible Christmas gift
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 8:58 AM ET
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I was raised by creative and somewhat broke hippies in Baltimore, MD.  My father's love of writing and nature combined to produce my most wonderful Christmas ever i more...
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Subject: When my spouse returned home from deployment
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 9:46 AM ET
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I meet my now husband back when he first signed up for the NAVY. We meet through my friend and his room mate, and we immediately hit it off. I hadn't known how much I would want to be with som more...
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Subject: My favorite Memory
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 10:07 AM ET
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While my parents have always given me lots of things for Christmas(I'm an only child) one of my fa more...
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Subject: Lean Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 10:12 AM ET
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I remember a lean Christmas when I needed to buy more...
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Subject: My Dad
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 10:57 AM ET
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Well I grew up in Dublin Ireland in a council house, the 80's were a very lean time for Ireland, but christmas was always the most magical thing before we emigrated to New Zealand (its kinda dif more...
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Subject: Extreme White Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 11:36 AM ET
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In the mid 1960s, my family lived in Utah and we made the long drive back to our home town of Washington, D.C., for Christmas.  more...
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Subject: Most memorable Christmas from my youth
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 11:41 AM ET
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One Christmas year before I was 8, though I don't remember how old I was, each of the children in our home received ei more...
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Subject: Santa Claus is the Gas Man??!
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 12:37 PM ET
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When I was five my mother, father, brother, and myself lived in a sharecropper shack in a little town in Georgia. The house was so run down that the owners turned it into a hay barn after we moved. The house worked for us though, because my Dad and Mom would help take care of the farm animals and the more...
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Subject: Most Memorable Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 1:18 PM ET
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My most memorable Christmas as a child/teenager was a sad year for our family.  Christmas had always more...
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Subject: especially memorable
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 2:27 PM ET
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Two Christmas' stand out for me...this year we bought 4 NEW tires for th more...
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Subject: My favoritie Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 4:41 PM ET
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For years I have told the story of my favorite Christmas which was the year I ha more...
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Subject: My favorite Chrismas memory
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 4:52 PM ET
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My most memorable Christmas was the year my father had the flu - I was probably about 5 or 6. It was a monumental occurren more...
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Subject: Christmas Past
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 5:05 PM ET
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One Chirstmas that really stands out for me was actually in 2001. At the time, my two children were 7 and 8  and we had NO more...
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Subject: Babies are born at Christmas
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 5:23 PM ET
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My husband and I heard of a 28 yr old who had just lost her husband in November.  Sh more...
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Date Posted: 12/3/2008 7:08 PM ET
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Back in the mid 1980's I was working full time and going to school full time with three young children. Money was very tight and my Christmas budget was rather small. Cabbage Patch dolls were popular at the time and I knew that my little girl more...
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Subject: Yes, Kathy, there is a Santa Claus
Date Posted: 12/3/2008 9:09 PM ET
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The year I was 6, I was pretty sure there was no Santa.  When you are the baby of the family, the youn more...
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Date Posted: 12/4/2008 9:12 AM ET
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In 1989 I was 11 and my mom was a single parent with 3 kids (my dad died in a car accident when I was 4), money was extremely tight a more...
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Date Posted: 12/4/2008 12:40 PM ET
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When I was small, My father did all the shopping  as my mother did not drive.  He would always wait until Christmas more...
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Date Posted: 12/4/2008 5:55 PM ET
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My parents were married on Christmas Eve and were together for 47 years b more...
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