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For a little girl named Chita, Christmas is a wintery combination of times shared with Mama and Papa in the bundle-up outside and cozy crowded inside. Set in turn-of-the-century Baltimore, Chita's Christmas story celebrates the timeless joys of the season, and most of all, the delicious anticipation of a tree... a deep green pine with branches that tickle the sky.

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Elizabeth Fitzgerald  Howard

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

1927 -
American
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard's grandfather was Cornelius "C.C." Fitzgerald.  His brother Will told stories about their childhood to his daughter... See more
Floyd Cooper

Floyd Cooper

1956 - 2021
American
Floyd Cooper had a brief track-and-field career as a junior-high-school student in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He can still hear the voice of his coach y... See more

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Chita's Christmas Tree
Howard celebrates the happy events of a Christmas season during the childhood of her cousin, born in 1908, only child of one...

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