What About YOU? Favorite Christmas Gift

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Today's What About You Question: What was your favorite Christmas gift as a child?

I was eight the year Easy Bake Ovens hit the stores. My mom, a single parent, could not afford a gift of that size. When I spotted a huge gift under my aunt and uncle's Christmas tree with my name on it, my heart leaped with hope.



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 Do you think I got my wish? Could this be why, forty-some years later, I still love to bake?

Your turn...