Speaking of having a LOT to be thankful for this Christmas season...

I just gave a Christmas card to one of my neighbors downstairs, and she said she really doesn't like Christmas...at all. I asked her why. She told me that when she was 12 years old, her father was murdered on Christmas Eve!!!

She said the only comfort she had that Christmas day was that her four brother's and sisters did NOT yet know it had happened, and THEY got to enjoy Christmas.

So I am now thankful that none of MY family were ever murdered. Especially on Christmas Eve!!!

I can't imagine the heartache and the horror of what she felt as a child.

The murderers were never caught. She only knows that there were two of them.

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kodiac · 22-25, M

Bad experiences on Christmas are something you can never get over. When everyone else is happy all you feel is sadness and pain .

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4meAndyou · F

@kodiac Healing!!! THAT is great!!!!

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@kodiac you are a true survivor

kodiac · 22-25, M

@cherokeepatti Thanks you're an awesome friend!

jackrabbit10 · M

Christmas is my Birthday. so, I don't get Christmas presents.

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4meAndyou · F

@jackrabbit10 Yup!

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou My great-grandfather served in the Civil War. When the war ended he went back home, got married to a girl he knew before the war. And he homesteaded a quarter-mile section farm in Nebraska. He farmed and was good at it. They had 12 children. He made enough money to buy a 600-acre stock farm. And then bought a grain mill in town. After he retired he eventually moved to Osceola, Florida and bought an orange grove. My grandfather who was also a farmer, would drive down to Florida and help him harvest oranges. I can’t help but think that he brought a truckload of oranges with him back to Nebraska to share with the family.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti That must have been wonderful, and I am SURE that the people in Nebraska appreciated those oranges VERY much!!!

Firestarter · 31-35, F

So sad.

Iwillwait · M

This is so Heartbreaking. 🥺

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