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A few years later each of my sisters bought me a similar looking cherub at our gift ex-
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change. After that the cherub joke seemed to finally subside: Until this Christmas, that is.
My sisters and I don't exchange Christmas gifts any more because the family is so large.
We do, however, have a Chinese auction and also buy each others grandchildren gifts.
This Christmas my sister Carol presented me with a gift. Carol is known for wrapping
things that we leave behind at her house and giving them back to us on Christmas. One year
I actually left a pair of underwear at her house that I left when I changed into my bathing suit
to go swimming in her pool. I received it for Christmas the next year. When she handed me a
present this year I wondered what I had left at her house this time. Instead of a lost item it was
a cherub. This cherub was not as angelic looking as most cherubs and looked a bit like Jackie
Gleason with wings after a night on the town .When we drove home to Dunnellon around 11
PM. I forgot to take the cherub with me.
At a stop light in Inverness I noticed while we were waiting for the light to change the
"Haven was not only there to care for the
couple in the car next to us was looking intently at the front of our car. I didn't pay much
family, but to make sure that my stepfather
attention to them. But in Dunnellon we stopped at the light at US 41 and Pennsylvania Avenue
had everything he needed. I didn't have
and another couple in a car next to us was looking with apparent amusement at the front of our
the answers for what my mother was going
car.
through...but Haven did. They comforted
When we pulled into our driveway I began to unload the car when the object of those
motorists amusement caught my eye. Someone had wired the cherub to the grill of our car. I
us in ways that only someone who has been
don't know who did it, but there aren't any halos above any of my sisters heads.
there can."
I called and left word on each of my sister's answering machines that a miracle had oc-
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curred. A lost cherub had appeared on Christmas Eve on the front of our car to guide me home
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safely. Of course none of my sisters had any idea how the cherub got there. And amid the
snickers and giggles they each agreed it was indeed a Christmas miracle.
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