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whats your best christmas memory?

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when all of my family was alive we'd have these massive christmas dinners. the highlight of the day was what we called a joke off. we would prepare for months ahead cause you had to say the jokes by heart, no stuttering. it went around the circle and it had to be a new joke from last year! my uncle guy won every year! when you stuttered or loss your train of thought, you had to take a shot. and the next thing which was pretty sad but funny as hell by the end of the night,, they would make my grandma cry by telling her how bad the food was!! lol!

whats your favorite memory?
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NONE!
Well, maybe one year as a child when my granparents were alive and my parents were drunk and beating the shit out of me I got to stay with them for 2 weeks. I t felt so good not to get the shit beaten out of me and to have someone tell me they love me. For once in my life I felt happy I miss them so much.
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Halterbroke
My mom made pancakes. It was rreally weird because there were very few presents under the tree.

Then I remember looking out the window and seeing my first pony tied to the tree in the back yard! A little grey pony!

OH WAIT! THAT NEVER HAPPENED!
Yeah, we'd silently open gifts, then my dad would get wasted and my mom would drag me to my grandmother's house and someone would get arrested. Bah humbug.
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I guess the first Christmas that I remember my dad being sober and with us. When I was 12. That was the first year we had a birthday cake for Jesus too.
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When I was 10 and it was our last Christmas together before the divorce. I got a transister radio!! I thought everything was okay.
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watching the tree get lit in NY
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**BUMP*
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Well, All my Xmas's are pretty much uniform.

But the one that stands out was when my parents got laid off right before Xmas,

we had all of our stuff in layaway and had to take it back.

so I remember getting a box on xmas day.

it was from the salvation army's adopt a family program.

3 families adopted us and sent us gifts.
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Just remembering my Auntie Carmen walking through the door with all her Xmas gifts. She was my Santa Claus, if it weren't for her we would not had any Xmas gifts. She did all that on a $100 a month salary as a live in housekeeper. God bless her in heaven, I miss her so much - am crying now but happy tears!!
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my best christmas memories are from when my parents sent me to PA to be with my grandparents. It was such a defference to just be taken care of for a change. Nothing big, just knowing that you would have three meals a day that you didn't have to get yourself, or that noone was going to ditch you somewhere, or throw something at your head. And one year (was 6 or 7) the fam chipped in to give me $100. My grandma got it $1 bills and hid them all over the house. It was a fantastic christmas treasure hunt.
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**BUMP**
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My dad was sent on a Remote Military assingment to Korea for one year. At 6 months he was allowed two weeks to come home and visit us. His two weeks fell over Christmas.
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I was six, we came from Mexico where I used to live to visit my grandmother in Odessa, Texas. That night Santa Clause came and gave me a whole baseball set glove, bat, and ball. The next day my father and I oiled up my glove and tied a rubber band around it. I waited impatiently for most of the day. Then finally just as the sun began its descent. My father said, "okay, son let's go try your new glove out." we went to my grandmother's backyard and played catch until the sun went down. That was the first and only time I played catch with my father....
Marilyanna
Marilyanna
I rememberr being 8 and coming downstairs there were two blue bikes for my sister and I. They were second hand but my mom and dad had cleaned them all up.
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My Christmas's as a kid were filled with anger and bitterness. (religious quarrels) So, now as a mom I make sure that we put out cookies and that my kids get new pj's on Christmas Eve, and I tie a long string of bells to the tree to be our Santa catcher. If he touches the tree it rings. That has been a lot of fun.
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Well night crew? ~bump.
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