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    True meaning of the holiday is love

    Cheboygan Daily Tribune , MI
    Dec 21 2004

    Christmas is in the air ... People are singing ... Everyone is talking
    about love. I've got a story for you about some people who really
    knew the meaning of love.

    These people never questioned what to do. They, and all the people
    like them, are the true saints of this world.

    Picture this: It's Dec. 25, 1935, when scars of the Great Depression
    still linger. A 30-year-old woman walks up to the nurse's station on
    the OB/GYN floor and says, "I'm leaving now."

    The nurse says, "Where's your baby?"

    The woman answers, "In the nursery. I didn't want a girl and besides,
    that's the ugliest baby I ever saw."

    The woman leaves the hospital.

    The nurse knows the baby's uncle; so she telephones him and says,
    "Your sister left the hospital without her baby girl. What should we
    do? Do you want the baby?"

    The uncle says, "We're having Christmas dinner right now. Is it OK
    if we pick her up in about an hour or so?"

    The nurse says, "Sure."

    The uncle puts the telephone back in its holder and says to the family
    members who are all busy eating a festive dinner, "God has given us
    the ultimate Christmas present."

    They all chime in and say, "What?"

    "Another mouth to feed," he announces. "After dinner we're going to
    the hospital to pick up our 5-day-old baby girl."

    It's been said that on the way to the hospital the baby's grandmother
    is to have whispered, "That baby is only half Armenian. What's the
    other half?"

    Whereby her uncle is said to have answered, "Who knows? Who cares?
    She's ours even if her eyes might be blue."

    And, that's how life began for a baby girl who was lucky enough to
    have loving, caring, wonderful grandparents, aunts and uncles who
    all pitched in and raised that baby until she married in 1954.

    A love that lasts forever, that is the true meaning of Christmas.

    This column is dedicated to all the wonderful, loving, caring people
    who have dedicated their lives to raising other people's children as
    their own. Shirley and Jerry, Alice, Sharon and John to name a few.

    Without people like you, what would happen to us?
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