Photo of five year old opening her Christmas stocking

Opening stockings is still my favorite part of Christmas morning. And here I am at age 5, diving right in. It’s the details that speak to me in this photo—the Jordan Marsh Christmas box behind me, the pole lamp that always burned too hot, the baggy knees of my footed pajamas, and my hair—flyaway, stick straight, resisting my mother’s best attempts to roll it up in those little rubbers curlers.

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