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Diane Disney talks Christmas (photo of her as a child on Christmas)

Christmas is the most exciting time of the year, and not just because of Santa Claus. It is a wonderful time of celebration, of expectation, filled with glorious music. In our home, the excitement began with the Nativity set, which had been carefully packed away just after New Year’s Day. It was brought out and all the figures carefully removed from the cotton in which they’d been wrapped… Mary and Joseph, two shepherds (one kneeling with a lamb in his arms), the Three Wise Men (or Kings, if you will), several sheep, a cow, a donkey, and the baby Jesus, placed last in his manger bed.

We would drive down to Wilshire Boulevard to see the Christmas windows in the May Company department store. When I first saw the Christmas windows in the Emporium on Main Street in Disneyland, I was reminded of Dad’s fascination with those other windows so long ago.

Our living room in the home of Woking Way was two stories high. A balcony from the upstairs hall, just outside my bedroom, looked down on it. This was the site of my first view of Christmas mornings. Then I’d rush downstairs for a closer look.

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