"Christmas Eve afternoon we scrape together a nickel and go to the butcher's to buy Queenie's traditional gift, a good gnawable beef bone. The bone, wrapped in funny paper, is placed high in the tree near the silver star. Queenie knows it's there. She squats at the foot of the tree staring up in a trance of greed: when bedtime arrives she refuses to budge. Her excitement is equaled by my own."...
... this is a quote from Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory" (first published December 1956). This is the single best story about Christmas I have ever read! If you have time over the holidays, make yourself comfortable, wrap yourself in a quilt for some time and read this wonderful story!
It's available online for example here:
Merry Christmas!
