Sid Salter: Christmas No Longer About The Presents, Because It’s The Presences That Matter

Daily Journal, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Mon, 12/22/2014 - 6:49am

SID SALTER I remember so well the unbearable anticipation of Christmas Eve with my sisters Sharon and Sheila in the little teacher’s home across from the Beulah-Hubbard school in rural Newton County a half-century ago. Sheila, my twin, shared my suffering. Sharon, who was older and wiser, was able to put up a more mature front. There were photos made of the children by the tree in our pajamas.

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