Angels on Earth magazine

A Long-Forgotten Prayer

NOBODY IN MY FAMILY knew what I really wanted for Christmas. Not my parents or any of my seven brothers and sisters. I’d told no one. No one but God.

I wanted a pedal car just like the one I’d seen on display at the Orpheum

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