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Christmas Blues
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Me and My Dog
By Kathe Campbell Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others.
~Thomas S. Monson If you have married children you most likely watch them juggle parents at Christmas. I call it the "Every Other Holiday Syndrome." Wife's parents on odd years and husband's family on even years. Simple — except when unforeseen circumstances found this unsuspecting mom and pop facing a lonely Christmas for the first time. We were not looking forward to the holidays. Okay, we can handle it, we're grown-ups and we understand, we kept reminding ourselves. Okay, that is, until our Golden Retriever collapsed under a massive seizure that forced us to say goodbye to our beloved lady. We were heartsick over the loss of our Nikki. Oh, dear God, I lamented, what a bummer just before Christmas. I cried buckets while my husband, Ken, labored to keep his macho image intact. Finally he let go and it was a dreadful scene. (Keep reading) | 
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