A Christmas tree for Mrs. Mueller
The black-and-white photograph of Mrs. Mueller that I took with my Brownie camera captures her seated on the sofa in our living room, smiling shyly. Mrs. Mueller was our next-door neighbor when my sister and I were growing up.
We got to know her after her husband died. She didn’t have children of her own and no relatives that we knew of. She was gentle and kind, and
