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Holiday Memories

We were talking about past holidays the other evening, and I started thinking about how this can work into a novel or story. We were reminiscing about people we’ve known through the years, and quite a few “characters” came to mind.

Like…

Our neighbor who had an eight foot black velvet paint by numbers picture of Jesus on her living room wall. Did I mention it was encircled with white Christmas lights all year round?

The man we went to Church with who would sometimes invite other members over, offer to show them “something” and emerge much later dressed as a woman. The general consensus was that he made a pretty decent looking woman but wasn’t anything special as a guy.

Or how about one of my first bosses, a really charming guy. He once locked his wife out of the house because he didn’t like her new haircut. Want to imagine what working for him was like?

I’m sure you have a few characters in your background too. Sometimes you really can’t make this stuff up!