From the coming novel HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings by D.J. Houston
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How to trim a Christmas tree on the night before Christmas Eve when you’ve never had one, and the stores are closed and there’s no box of decorations stashed anywhere to draw from, is — or so I learned that night — like refurbishing an empty house without money . . .
You create something out of nothing with whatever is to hand and make up the rest as you go.
As Forest Gump’s own mama would say, “You never know what you’re gonna get.” And to that I would add, “when you bring out the Artist in people.”
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Havenwood Tales 
American Family Life ~ English Christmas Dinner Humor ~ What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Christmas 1946 ~ HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings
Secret Reporting after-the-fact (… by Trudie McAfee of Havenwood Tales, but please don’t tell anybody)
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by Norman Rockwell
Being from England and therefore born eccentric, of course it should have been predictable that Aunt Julia would serve weird food. . .
If the classic English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence” comes to mind, common sense would have to suspect it contained the remains of four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie — even to a six-year-old like me . . .
C L I C K for our Wild Celebration 🙂
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Holiday Stories, Celebration, Nostalgia – Mystery Novel – Historical Fiction Books
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