Sybil Bruncheon's MORE THAN THEY SEEM STORIES... “The Gifting Season!… 1954”…

Harriet Garamonde had always loved Christmas! All of Christmas! Its traditions, decorations, music, food! The sights and sounds and smells… everything! The stories of the Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the stable, the villagers and the Angel, the Three Wise Men. She adored the Christmas tree. Lit in the night with glorious ornaments covering it, and the possibility of a heavy snow falling on Christmas Eve itself. And she was consumed by the mystery and wonder of a character like Santa Claus coming into chldren’s homes in the middle of the night as well… the excitement and almost-danger. Had she been a good girl… or bad?

So, as a grown woman, now highly successful and glamorous in New York City with her thrilling fashion career, she tried to keep all that Christmas magic alive. She had never gotten around to having children herself nor even married. But that didn’t stop her in the middle of the night from breaking into apartments in her building and sneaking as many toys and presents as she could out through the windows and down the fire escapes! She DID finally decide that her Balenciaga vicuña coat with the sable collar was totally impractical and that she should just wear an all black leotard and sweatshirt… like she did in the French underground… as an assassin.

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