Between the Lines: Choosing a tree, and a life

Posted on December 9, 2010 |

• Opinion
• Between the Lines

By Gregory Dennis

It’s way too early to get a Christmas tree, I said.

But V. and S. had other ideas.

I grew up in a family that reserved the annual finding and cutting of the tree until the day of Christmas Eve. To their way of thinking, the day after Thanksgiving isn’t too early.

The first weekend of December, in my childhood experience, was for paging through the Sears catalog and figuring out if you were going to ask Santa for a new bike or a Fanner Fifty cap gun.

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