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Everyone I think has one Christmas that really stands out as being a memorable one.  Mine happened last year, in 2007 and it showed me how loving, caring and generous people can be, especially people that one may never meet in their lifetime.

I happen to belong to a discussion forum called MyLot, I had only joined up in early 2007.  I quickly became good friends with many of the folks there and it proved to be a great place to share ideas, tell of one’s joys, sorrows, concerns, fears and on and on.  Then Christmas was coming up but it was beginning to look like a dismal one for me.  You see in all my years I’ve never, ever been without a Christmas tree, but the way my finances were at the time, it looked impossible for me to get a real tree.  So I even started a discussion, “Have You Ever Wanted Something….And..”   It was sort of a rant of how this just didn’t look like it was going to be a good Christmas for me since I wouldn’t be able to afford a tree.

Well, my goodness, I never in my wildest dreams expect what was to happen.  One of my friends there who had my private email wrote me and asked me for my address.  I kind of scratched my head wondering why, as she lived in England while here I was in America.  A few days pass, and I scanned my emails and got one from a company I never heard of before.  It was from a Christmas Tree farm in North Carolina, informing me that I was to soon expect a delivery of a tree by UPS by an  anonymous person as a gift to me.  I put the two together and realized that this friend from England had “rounded” up some fellow other MyLotter friends of mine and all chipped in to get me that tree!

On Friday, December 11th, sure enough, the UPS truck was outside and rang my bell and the delivery man handed over a gigantic package….it was the tree!  I was to call my tree the “Love Tree” as it was given to me by people I would probably never meet, and they got it for me out of the true kindness and generosity of their hearts.  I was never to learn who the other people were that were involved with this magical offer and to this day, whoever they were still refuse to claim any “honors”….yes, I knew who the one person was involved but not the rest.

With all the gloom, doom and negativity that we are exposed to everyday via the news, the hardships and so forth, this wonderful offer restored faith in me of the generous nature people can demonstrate.

My “Love Tree” ironically lasted the longest I’ve ever had a tree and was still fresh even until well into the month of February, when I finally took it down.  A sad day indeed for me, but I have pictures of that tree, and even now, as I write this, I have two photos of it near my computer.

Here’s just one of the many photos I took.

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