We are all scarred. This perplexes me. It seems to me that health and happiness should be the norm, and disease and sadness the exceptions. I can see keeping this item forever, until no one living remembers Julie and the trauma your family went through.

There are so many people I wish I'd gotten to know better! Now that I live in my aunt's house, I realize how little I knew her. I know this much now - SHE LOVED CHRISTMAS. The basement is stuffed with Christmas decorations. Nice ones! I'm keeping some of them, and trying to rehome the others. Want some?