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Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly
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December 18, 2008

The Real Estate Adviser: Making memories of the holidays at home

By Tom Kelly
Special to the Journal

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 prepared and introduced their seven children to the celebration of the birth of Christ, holiday plays, Santa Claus and New Year’s Resolutions.

As the years rolled along and we grew up, they then hosted us as part-time borders during our college winter breaks (“Bob, we are going to have to buy more food”) and later 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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