Thursday, February 9, 2012
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By Bill O'Boyle boboyle@timesleader.com
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Stockings hung by the fireplace with care. Yuletide carols sung by a choir. Kids bundled up like Eskimos. We all have our own Christmas stories.
And some pop up unexpectedly and become part of future celebrations.
Six years ago, Tony Kravitz, 28, of Laflin, was rushing home to
Mother Nature had plans to dump crippling snow that had Kravitz watching the clock to see if he was going to make it on time to mom’s dinner table in Laflin.
“I was supposed to fly back early Christmas Day,” Kravitz said. “I got to
Then came the snow.
And then the delays.
He spoke to his sister in
“I got a flight out of
He didn’t get to
He spent the night in a Holiday Inn in
But Kravitz’s mom refused to have Christmas dinner without him, and the family reunited and celebrated on Dec. 26.
“It was great; Dec. 27 is my birthday, so we celebrated Christmas and my birthday on the same day,” Kravitz said.
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