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Taking Down the Christmas Tree: Preserving a Panoply of Ornaments and Tradition

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Taking Down the Christmas Tree: Preserving a Panoply of Ornaments and Tradition
Purchasing a new ornament each year for each child has been a tradition in the Sherman household for decades. These represent a few collected by and now given to their daughter as a start to her own family tradition. Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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When my husband Don and I celebrated our first Christmas together decades ago, he presented me with a small ornament—a porcelain doll dressed in burgundy. I was delighted. With each Christmas, she takes a prominent spot on the tree, always a reminder of our first Christmas together. So began our tradition of purchasing an ornament to celebrate us each year.

When our daughter Sophia was born, we decided to do the same for her, starting a collection of ornaments that someday would be given to her to decorate her tree.

Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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Anita L. Sherman is an award-winning journalist who has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for local papers and regional publications in Virginia. She now works as a freelance writer and is working on her first novel. She is the mother of three grown children and grandmother to four, and she resides in Warrenton, Va. She can be reached at [email protected]
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