“Just So You Know, We’re Using Your House for Christmas,” My Daughter-in-Law Texted — She Never Asked

down to what we could manage, what we could afford. A single tree by the front window, lights threaded through its branches with almost reverent care. A faded angel at the top whose cardboard wings were soft with age. The smell of cinnamon rolls rising in the oven at dawn, sugar and spice wrapping around the house like a blanket.

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