Although my parents were not very religious, a tree was a definite no-no in our home.
Stockings hung on the fireplace was as liberal as my father would go in our Virginia neighborhood where we were Jewish minorities.
But in Marilyn’s home, with parents who were active members of New York’s Central Synagogue, the tree was not viewed as a problem. It was embraced as a festive tradition perhaps mostly for their daughters‘ enjoyment. I can still picture Marjorie, Marilyn‘s mother, who wasbarely five feet tall, pointing to one of the tallest trees on the lot of a local vendor and having it delivered to her apartment. My memory is how much fun we had.
On my first Christmas in my Greenwich Village apartment, my roommate Linda, who is not Jewish, and I, bought my first-ever Christmas tree from a corner lot and negotiated it up the three winding flights of our walk-up apartment. We decorated it with lollipops. I invited the children from the reading tutoring group where I volunteered. We sat on the floor around the tree and ate the leftover lollipops.
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