Everybody recalls some of their favorite Christmas gifts “from Santa.”
I remember the trampoline that “Santa” hid in the woods before Christmas, and how my sister Ann and I inadvertently discovered it during a hike.
I recall the three Cabbage Patch Dolls that I got during Christmases in the 1980s. Their adoption papers had such hideous names that I renamed them “Haley, Matthew and Jonathan”.
There’s the red turtleneck with the little white specks that I got from The Gap as a teenager. That’s one of many that my sister Ashley told me about before Christmas.
Ashley loved telling people what their Christmas gifts were, but she wouldn’t directly tell you. For example, that Christmas, Ashley asked me, “Allison, did you see that red turtleneck with the white specks on it, near the front of The Gap yesterday at the mall?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“Well, I sure do hope you like it,” says Ashley.