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Gain and Loss on Christmas Day

Deal W. Hudson “Heard Melodies Are Sweet, but Those Unheard Are Sweeter,” wrote John Keats in his famous “Ode to a Grecian Urn.” This explains the pleasure of memories, especially those of a Christmas nearly sixty years ago. My family lived in Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, in a modest ranch style house. My father,…