It was Christmas time and we managed to buy a few gifts to send home to the family but we were totally broke. We didn't have any money to buy each other a gift. The day before Christmas the plant where I worked gave us each five dollars as a gift and I bought Jess a dollar wallet. We purchased a small tree and a few ornaments. We didn't have money to buy gas to go home. We received gifts from home but we didn't open them until Christmas morning.
Christmas Eve there was a light snow falling and we bought some chocolate covered doughnuts, at the bakery and them walked through the park by the old court house and talked. I think that first Christmas cemented our marriage. We were on our own and could manage without help from home. Neither one of us had ever been away from home for Christmas. I am grateful now that we shared that choice experience. It has been a sacred memory. Jess and I talked about it often as we relived the things we talked about and the emotions during that difficult time..
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