Once upon a time. Our lives are memories stitched together into a narrative. Often readers send me their stories and I have selected a few to share with you during this holiday season.
Marilyn Johnson, from Gilford, sent me a note after I had written about tradition. Her letter was an enchanting recollection of an almost 40-year-old Christmas box. In 1981, her mother and father gave her a Christmas present in a traditional shirt box from a department store. Marilyn kept the box and returned it to her mother the next year with a gift and a thoughtful tag. The exchange began.