A meaningful holiday gift: Our stories

Two years ago, on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, my parents invited my family and my brother Erik’s to join them for one week in Helsinki, Finland, where they married on December 21, 1965. It was a production to line up everyone’s schedules. My husband has to request time off three to six months ahead of time. My sister-in-law Carmen does as well. There were apartments to rent and plane tickets to purchase, an itinerary to plan that would accommodate the ten people, aged seven to seventy-three, some who like to take a mid-day nap. 

 

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