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Hi, My Name is Nancy and I am an Alumnium Christmas Tree Addict
Hi, my name is Nancy and I am an aluminum Christmas Tree addict.
Remember that movie, "Fly Away Home," where the newly hatched geese imprinted on the little girl (played by a young Anna Paquin) and thought she was their mother? Well, I imprinted from an early age on the shiny, silver Christmas trees of the 1950s and 60s. There's no help for me now.
The picture to the right was taken Christmas Eve of 1968 at my cousins' Collinsville, Illinois home.(I am the tall, awkward one in the back. My little brother is the cute redhead in front.)
We had one of these hipster trees at our house too and so did the relatives on the other side of the family, so there was no shortage of aluminum to love no matter where you were on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
As a child I found it odd when we visited friends who had impressive, real fir and pine trees in their homes. What's the matter with them? I wondered. (Although secretly I thought it was kind of daring and old-fashioned of them and wondered -- briefly -- if maybe we were the odd ones.)
Several years ago, after I ... more

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