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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason Countdown to Christmas”: My Greatest Christmas (A Very Short Story and an Open Letter To My Mother Dorothy 2/21/1924 – 12/24/2008)

December 22, 2016 by Jeff Burkhart 1 Comment

As I sat by her bedside, my Mother lay quietly. She was breathing the last of her allotted breaths here on Earth. My mind wandered back to my childhood, trying to make sense of it all. I thought back to Christmas Eves gone by. Christmas always brings my Mother to the front and center of […]

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