This Christmas will be like none we’ve ever seen before and I pray we will never see again. But it is also a time when we should remember and share with our loved ones all the wonderful memories of our past Christmases.
Good memories are forever. Bad memories should be quickly forgotten. Over the years I’ve had a weakness for big Christmas trees. I will always remember hauling big trees up and over the railing of our upper deck in Barnegat Light because we could never get them through the front…
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