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boy had one that he hauled all sorts of things

around in, but he was not about to share it.

Celese had seen a picture of one in a colored

Sunday ad and had kept the ad in her room,

sleeping with it under her pillow. I keenly felt

her disappointment when I told her that we

couldn’t afford the wagon.

But then her face brightened again a

moment later. “That’s okay, Daddy. I will ask

Santa for it.”

Her heart was much lifted by the thought,

but mine only felt heavier. Christmas was just

over five weeks away, and I considered

everything I could think of to get my little girl

the present she so desperately wanted. I

checked every secondhand store as well as all

of the want ads, but there were no used wagon

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