Favorite Childhood Memory

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Favorite childhood Memory Memoirs of my Childhood Christmas time. The smell of Candy Cane fills the air. By the roaring fire stands a tall, bushy evergreen, overflowing with tinsel and lights. Stockings hang gracefully full of new Christmas treats. Hovering just above, sits a plate full of crumbs, the only evidence that "he" had been. There was a spectacular feast prepared on the table, with bacon and eggs, pineapple and toast. Standing proud and high in the heart of the table is a tower of fruit salad jelly. The scents motioning like a hand towards my nose, lifting to smell all the scents I was smacked in the face with a wall of damp mouldy air, dirty clothes and mice. I opened my eyes and realised my reality. I only slept to relieve my eyes from this hellhole that I lived in. I would have no Christmas like this. No festivities for me. Instead I'd spend Christmas with no Christmas tree. All alone, just like every other day, in the box by the bin in Allie Lane. With the back of my hand I wipe a stray tear from my eye, and sigh knowing this is how I am going to live my life. Down in the alley, no one even knowing that I exist. But someone is coming down the lane, down to my box. She's wearing an officer's uniform. Oh no not again. She's going to tell me to move on. To get my own place. Where would I go? The officer bends down, and I squeeze tighter into my box, her white smile hits me first. A relief for my darkened eyes. She puts her hand on my shoulder and tells me "It's going to be alright". No more hiding, in my old and damp box. She talks of a place that she would like to take me, and describes the Christmas feast that will be prepared for tonight. I could be part of a family, yes a family! With a mum and a dad and a dog in the backyard. There is a family looking for a child, and had

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