Finding gratitude among the loss inflicted by Southern California wildfire
by Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times
Nov 23, 2018
3 minutes
CALABASAS, Calif. - Sheryl Evans' plan for Thanksgiving was to make more memories in the home she shared with her 9-year-old son, Nathan.
Instead, the week leading up to the holiday was spent sifting through deep piles of ash and charred wood in the skeleton of what was once a three-bedroom, two-bath house in Calabasas.
The backyard, where Evans taught Nathan how to play baseball, has a melted trampoline and green hairlike threads that used to be Christmas lights. The tire swing that hung from the pine tree in the frontyard is gone, either
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