On Sunday evening Marian and I went down to the “Nights of 1000 Lights” at Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar. It was all quite lovely, of course, and among other things they had a Christmas tree where you could write down your Christmas wish on a red card and then tie it to a branch. Most of them looked like this:
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Uh huh. As usual, it took a child to show us the true spirit of this magical season:
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