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liome. Then, tendayslato%Tna^anomer wonderful Christmas with the family in Cincinnati. Another band Christmas was our first in California. I was in pictures, now, and had just bought the house in Toluca Lake. Mother and Terry came out that fall in time for Terry to start school. We felt like pioneers — we had a couch, chairs, beds, an icebox, and that was it! At Christmas we held open house and all the boys from Les Brown’s band were there — they came to cheer up Mother, because she was crying for Cincinnati. But Terry and I were on Cloud Nine. I was in pictures, and he was cowboy-minded. All you needed was to have Santa arrive with a load of six-shooters and spurs, and Terry was in small boy’s heaven. The gift of love Our Christmases began to be truly wonderful when Marty came into our lives. I certainly remember that first Christmas. Terry wanted to buy Marty a present and he got Mom to take him to the dime store, carrying with him a huge piggy bank full of pennies, nickels and dimes. Can you imagine the Christmas rush in the dime store? The crowds and the hurry, and Terry dumping this bank on the floor, every penny? And what do you suppose he bought Marty after all this? Garters! He bought him a pair of garters and me a scarf to wear around my head — such stiff material it wouldn’t bend, much less tie! Marty’s family had never made a big fuss over the holiday but he took to it like mad. To this day, two weeks ahead of time he’s out looking for a tree, which is usually drooping by the time Christmas is here. He almost breaks his neck climbing up to take care of the lights, the wreath and all the house decorations. And, of course, it’s Marty who has helped me arrive at the true meaning of Christmas, the deep, spiritual meaning of it. You learn as you go along; your values change. When I was a kid, growing up meant a bra, a permanent, high heels and false teeth. Those four things I wanted madly. My grandmother had uppers and lowers and I loved the clack they made. But you learn as you go that growing up is none of those things, it’s a matter of living and seeing the good — absorbing and accepting the wonderful gift of life. I realize that my Christmas memories had very little to do, actually, with gifts. They’re all about the people who made Christmas beautiful by giving me the gift of love. That’s why I’d love to go back East. I’d love to pop into Cincinnati and see all the family, Aunt Marie (Marty calls her “The Rock”) and my friends. You know, there are twenty-five of my old girl friends living there? When we get together it’s a real bash. They call me “Doke,” and we tell all the old stories, but we have such fun. I’d like to pick up a rented car, go on to New York, spend a week exploring wonderful New England antique shops, go up through Maine, and visit Marty’s home in New Adams, Massachusetts. The brisk weather up there — oh, I can just smell it! We’ll pick up jams and jellies and cold crackling baskets of apples to send home. . . . At Christmas, it’s such fun to remember all the people who’ve meant a lot to you, write to them, tell them you’re thinking of them . . . but more fun, still, to pop in and tell them in person . . . and that’s really what I want to say to all of you who have become part of my world. With all my heart I say it: “May you have a joyous and a holy Christmas.” The End Be sure to see Doris Day in U-I’s “Midnight T .ace ” Hear her sing for Columbia. POST GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NURSING Room 9X11 — 1 31 S. Wabash, Chicago 3, III. Name _ Address. City State. 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