This story is inspired by multiple things, my mother working hard, sewing all night to surprise my sister and I with a doll, my father working extra long nights so he could take an extra day off to take us sledding, my brother saving up pennies to buy me shoelaces on a birthday. Having a family member in the hospital over the holidays- and being in the hospital myself. Cherishing the things that bring home and family closer to you. The magic of love in the absence of riches. 

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