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Article: Christmases never to be forgotten.(FAMILY TIMES)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- December 25, 2005
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Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
So, you're lighting candles, eating chocolate and opening a few gifts. It's all well and good, but probably not quite what it used to be at, say, age 5, when the holiday season was magical, when you couldn't wait to see if being on Santa's list of nice children paid off.
We asked eight well-known Washingtonians of varying professions and ages to share some of their most magical memories of holidays past - for some, 70 years past.
"Every Christmas Day, my uncles and all their children would come to wish my grandmother a Merry Christmas," says Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington. ...