I have a distinct memory of being 10 years old and walking into a Macy's store one balmy Dec afternoon and seeing a display of a wing back chair and ottoman set by a fireplace with a tree in the corner. On the table was an empty coffee cup and on the ottoman was a blanket casually draped over one corner as if it had been tossed aside so you could stand up and put more wood on fire. Next to the blanket was the newspaper, folded in a way that you could clearly see whomever had been sitting there was reading the comics. Perhaps to the child that had been playing with the pudgy teddy bear and the toy truck that lay near by on the floor.



My father and I stood side by side staring silently at that display. After a few moments he said, "Your grandfather used to have a chair like that and he would read me the comics every Sunday morning". Before we left the store, my father had purchased the bear, the blanket, and the coffee. 

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