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December 11, 2003
Home for the holidays: what will kids remember?
By TOM KELLY
The Real Estate Adviser
The Real Estate Adviser
My folks lived in the same home for 46 years. The special place always took on extra energy and enthusiasm during the last two weeks of the year as my parents introduced their seven children to the celebration of the birth of Christ, holiday plays, Santa Claus and New Year's resolutions.
They then hosted us as part-time borders during our college winter breaks ("Bob, we are going to have to buy more food.") and then welcomed any and all of us -- with wives, husbands and grandkids in tow -- to return for a few days of holiday cheer and memories after we had moved away. How they knew only two or three of their seven children would show up in the same year always was curious.
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