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Article: Wistful writers saw tearful themes in artist's holiday painting.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2001
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Byline: BOB KEEFER The Register-Guard
"In our family people always die in December," Aunt Birdie told Gramma.
"Will Santa Claus die?" I asked.
That's a typically upbeat passage from one of dozens of stories of heartbreak, loss and last-minute reconciliation that cheery Register-Guard readers entered in this year's Christmas fiction contest.
Forget decking the halls and bowls full of jelly. In Krista Larsen's "The Best Christmas," an adoptee finds her long-lost brother.
In Elmina Peterson's "A Brand-New Year," father and homeless son are reunited under a highway bridge.
Nine-year-old Jeffrey Bayes of Eugene titled ...