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    Lost Christmas
    Lost Christmas
    Lost Christmas
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    Lost Christmas

    By Marina Rojas

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    It's 1964 and a young girl is whisked away from her beloved Ohio to California by parents who seem to care less that Christmas is just a few days away.

    With underlying tones of dysfunction and unspoken grievances, the story perhaps hold more heartache than was necessary for the time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarina Rojas
    Release dateMar 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476271699
    Lost Christmas
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    Marina Rojas

    A child of the 60’s, Marina Rojas grew up in a family that was more crazy than dysfunctional, and today survives as a testimony to love and laughter because of it. Working currently as a freelance writer with several releases on Smashwords.com, she's loving writing her own personal blog at http://marinarojasfreelancewriterandauthor.weebly.com/, while guest-blogging at SuccessandFailure.com, and tackling a new blog for ChristianWriters.com. Marina is retired from 28.5 years with the State of California Employment Development Department where she worked as a manager in unemployment insurance, and has written stories for, and worked as an editor for FaithWriters Magazine. A short story called Will I Have the Right Shoes? was published in the Fall 2004 Edition of the FaithWriters Christian book Learning for Life. Most recently, her FaithWriters story 'A-Running With Moses' took first place in her division of the weekly writing challenge. Marina also worked at her dream job, writing local interest stories for the Press Enterprise newspaper in Riverside, CA. She is now reliving her childhood and tumultuous teen years in her stories, and writing her very own great American novel while she awaits the birth of her fourth grandchild. Life is good!

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      Lost Christmas - Marina Rojas

      Lost Christmas

      By Marina Rojas

      Copyright 2011 Marina Rojas

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      I remember the day my father had announced that he was moving us all to California.

      We were sitting at the dinner table, eating the pork chops,

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