{"id":4917,"date":"2023-12-24T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2024-01-13T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T21:20:03","slug":"a-clementines-and-pistachios-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4917","title":{"rendered":"A Clementines and Pistachios Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

My parents grew up in the Depression. Creature comforts were scare and probably never more so than during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n

And that’s why it was a big deal in the 1930s when my Mom and Dad would get a box of “Clementines” tangerines and a bag of pistachios.<\/p>\n

The years have gone by Christmastime is here again. My mom passed more than a decade ago and my Dad passed in April.<\/p>\n

This is the first Christmas I will have without either parents. (Don’t be sad I’m old).<\/p>\n

But it won’t be the last Christmas with Clementines and Pistachios!<\/p>\n

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