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you seldom hear how they are

doing.

But on the morning of December

th
26 of that year, as my family still

slept, I sat down to read the paper.

The headline said three children had

died in a fire. I gasped when I saw

Charlie’s name among them. As

the story unfolded over the next

couple of weeks, we learned that he

and his sisters had been put back

into the home with their mother and

her boyfriend. During the week

before Christmas, Charlie had

shoveled every walk in the

neighborhood to earn money to buy

his sisters Christmas presents, the

only ones they had.

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