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Article: SURVIVING SPOUSE'S DEPLOYMENT USING THE TAO OF RUDOLPH.(DAILY BREAK)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Byline: JACEY ECKHART
I SPENT THE better part of my childhood cowering behind my father's red and green houndstooth armchair waiting for the Abominable Snowman to Just . . . Go . . . Away. Although I loved watching ``Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'' on TV, the Abominable's big blue lips scared me senseless. Brrrrr!
Maybe it was a premonition. Now that I am a parent and have watched the show until I can recite large sections of dialogue, I realize that the whole darn Rudolph fable is merely a metaphor for everyone's worst nightmare: Deployment Christmas!
Yes! That quintessential Navy experience that makes your Aunt Madge cluck, ``I could ...