... seems like there is a Christmas get together every weekend. My four person family gets ready and arrives at church just as the bells are ringing. We walk up the snow covered stairs and enter the church that is full of Christmas cheer. I notice the farming families have put aside all their worries about animals and wells freezing and they have all gotten cozy and snuggled into ... a tradition that we go to all the advent Sundays together and then the service on Christmas Eve where the reenact the Christmas story. This is very important part of the Christmas season to my family. It gives ...

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... you knew you would leave with big candy bars. Through the eyes of a child, her house looked like a mansion. When you walked inside, you could smell all the food cooking, you could hear everyone talking, laughing, and sharing things to one other. You could see all the decorations, it was truly Christmas. She had the stairs that have two sides on them and when you got upstairs ... , you could overlook the foyer, or the living room. Her ceilings were enormous ... so in her living room stood at least a 12 foot Christmas tree, decorated with the most beautiful lights and ornaments. Underneat...

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... heard. I peered through all of the doors and closets but could not find anything unusual. After a few minutes of searching around, I decide it was nothing, and went down stairs, got my shoes on, walked outside, and locked the door. I began to walk up the sledding hill were everyone seemed to be having a good time. All of a sudden, I heard a loud scream, come from inside the house. I turned around quickly ... to see what the noise was, and saw a shadow through my ... window. The shadow appeared to be hacking away at something ... ...

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... Once we got home my dad would take the tree outside and trim off all of the odd branches. He would cut the trunk to the right height and put it on our red tree stand to bring inside. My mom loves Christmas trees, which is the reason we always got ours so early. She loves the smell of the tree in the house and she has a fetish for decorating. We ... would have to say were my favorite of all Christmases. We would always drive instead of flying so we could enjoy traveling through and see all of the beautiful countryside and mountains. When we would arrive twenty-two hours later, I remember ...

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... to do something, so I sprint toward the house door. About half of the way there I see the man's shadow raise a knife, the screaming intensifies. With a downward motion the man strikes and stabs the young woman and the screaming instantly ceases. As I approach the house the man shadow moves toward the door. The man opens up the enormous double doors leading into the front of the house, squeaking with every inch. I dive into the forest of weeds and bushes as he steps ... the doors. The house is lit by candles placed on wall sconces. The walls are all covered with dark and intricate design...

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... minute my dad had gone with her which meant I was at home with my sister. We watched all the Christmas films and even had a peek or two and some of the presents. That night we decorated the inside of the house, we already had twinkling lights up in the windows and snow in a can so it looked like it had snowed. We put up some left over tinsel ... was snowing and that a lot of it was still on the roads. I ran into my sister's room to wake her up and we both ran down the stairs and into the front room, where the tree was. We went through all of them and took out our presents and opened the...

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