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Uh oh

I glanced excitedly out throughbeautiful in the tiny flakes of swirling snow

“So where are we going?” Lincoln asked

“Where aren’t we going,” I grinned back

Fourteen

HOLLY

The whole ordeal was beautiful and breathtaking, exhausting and chaotic All great things as far as shopping trips went, or at least they were in my book

Lincoln was a trooper throughout He kept pace withcarts and never once uttering a single word of complaint Money was never an object with hi Especially when it caenerous to a fault

It was adorable, howthe them the Christmas he always remembered Or maybe, I realized as the day wore on, the Christmas he alished he’d had

We paid for delivery where possible, sending everything to his uptown office Where it wasn’t possible, we carried thes and boxes Gifts wrapped in colorful red and green paper, presents topped with shiold ribbon

We started at the Shops at Colulass-enclosed mall with a child-like sense of wonder Fro the Manhattan Mall, laughing that ere somehow able to come out the other side unscathed

The City was alive with shoppers, with tourists, with allstreets Between each stop we caught our breath in the back of the car, red-faced and rosy-cheeked Our heads leaned close together as we exa off family and friends one by one like ere on soer hunt

We hit the glea white cathedrals of the Westfield World Trade Center, then shot uptown to Macy’s to ogle the ic of their Christmasdisplay We crossed off a few more names here as well, but for theshow they put on each year

“Nothing like this in Texas, huh?” Lincoln asked, after we’d fought our way to the front of the crowd

“Not i