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    Douglas' Big Christmas
    Douglas' Big Christmas
    Douglas' Big Christmas
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    Douglas' Big Christmas

    By Mary Tomasi Dubois

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    Does it hurt a Christmas Tree when you cut it down?

    That's what Doug, the little tree, wants to know when he finds out he's being raised on a Tree Farm and his biggest job is to be cut down and decorated by some family.

    "CUT DOWN!" Doug tried to pull his roots out of the ground, he had never felt so stuck before.

    But he discoveres it's not that scary and he even enjoys the big surprise.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Tomasi Dubois
    Release dateNov 16, 2009
    ISBN9781452360713
    Douglas' Big Christmas
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    Mary Tomasi Dubois

    Mary Tomasi-Dubois' goal in writing her stories is to capture the imagination of young readers and to develope an interesting story for adults to enjoy as well. Mary's hope is that they will then get involved in a discussion of the plot, writing style, historical events, etc.; much as a book club might.Mary Tomasi-Dubois is a native of Cleveland Ohio, but has lived in California since the age of three. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, and a long and varied career.Being a teenager in the fifties allowed Mary to achieve some firsts for that era—the first girl admitted in her junior high and high school’s drafting classes as well as the first girl in her college’s architectural classes. This lead to being the first women hired as an electro/mechanical drafter at Lockheed in the early 60’s, during the Race to Space frenzy.Throughout her early career, Mary worked as an architectural drafter, tooling drafter, electro/mechanical drafter, printed circuit designer, and CADD manager at the dawn of the computer age in Silicon Valley.Mary later went back to school to obtain certification in one of her passions, interior design, and now has a successful Interior & Reality Enhancement business. She combined her talents to teach drafting for interior design students at UC Santa Cruz Extension for 15 years.In 1987, Mary joined forces with her husband, Paul, to expand their company, Tomasi-Dubois & Associates, Security Consulting and Engineering, and with the addition of an engineer, began designing large-scale integrated security systems for some of the nation’s fortune 100 companies. Today, the company enjoys the prestige of the greatest form of marketing—‘word of mouth’ recommendations.As a child, Mary loved making up stories about fairies, pirates, and times past in exotic lands, and she loved telling them to her stuffed animals and dolls. As an adult, her interest in ancient history, metaphysics, and more recently quantum physics, has inspired her to weave these topics into another of her passions, writing stories.Mary currently teaches a Young Writer's Workshop and is host of access channel KCAT's Word Sleuth - Detective of All Things Written, where she interviews local authors, publishers (including Mark Coker of Smashwords), librarians or anyone connected with the written word.

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      Douglas' Big Christmas - Mary Tomasi Dubois

      DOUGLAS’ BIG CHRISTMAS ©

      by

      Mary Tomasi-Dubois

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2009 Mary Tomasi Dubois

      Discover other titles by Mary Tomasi Dubois at

      Smashwords.com

      The Mariner’s Secret at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1408

      Danger in the Jeweled City at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1414

      Raising Harley at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1529

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your iuse only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter 1: A New Home

      The little sapling found himself waking in a strange, new place. It wasn’t warm and humid like the glass-house nursery he was use to. This place was wide open. It was fresh and free and exciting—but it was scary too.

      Well, hello little one—welcome to our farm! said a stately Nobel Fir.

      Farm, w- what’s a farm? asked the trembling little sapling, still a little shaky on his roots. (He didn’t have his old clay pot to hold him securely, and his roots weren’t quite steady enough yet.)

      A farm is where we Christmas Trees live, answered the old fir, announcing that his name was Royal the Fifth. And what’s your name?

      I, I guess I don’t have a name, the little sapling said softly.

      No name? Well, we’ll just have to give you one. Hum, let’s see, you look like your going to grow up to be a Douglas Fir—hmm. That’s it! We’ll call you Doug—that’s short for Douglas."

      Not waiting for the little sapling to give his approval of the new name, Royal asked if he liked the farm so far.

      Yes, I think so, said the little sapling.

      "You think so? My boy, you either like it or you don’t. What’s there not to like? Humph," was all Royal could say.

      "Oh, I do like it here, Royal, sir, said the little sapling. And I like my new name too. But, it’s just so different here from my old home. Here, I can see the sky better. And mountains! I couldn’t see the mountains from the nursery

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