Day 22: All signs point to this being a thin holiday season for many families, so perhaps it's time to return to a simpler life. In the era of my childhood, receiving a doll for Christmas was a real treat among the practical gifts of socks and school clothes. Handmade gifts were the rule rather than the exception, and I don't recall one dearer to my heart than Spoolie. This is not the original. It disappeared over a series of moves and was long gone by the time I left home at the ripe old age of 12. This is a modern version, as close to the one my mother made as I could get when I built it over fifty years ago from my scant hoard of wooden spools. That's how much I loved Spoolie. What kid today could put the same emotional investment in something so simple? It may be time to rethink our values.
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