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Just Accept it...Things Change!

Some of the displays were pretty good, others looked like tissue paper had been randomly glued to a flatbed trailer, but we always stayed and waited for the last float.

Once we saw that float, with Santa waving to the crowd, it was game on—we could submit our Christmas lists. Mom had a hard and fast rule that we couldn’t START Christmas until after Thank…