And believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage. We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
Either way, this will be a Christmas like no other with hundreds of thousands of lives lost across Europe celebrations will be scarred by the lost of life and the reality that the COVID pandemic remains far from over.
Lincoln began his proclamation this way: " The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies."
By 1960, Jet magazine was describing Parks as a: " tattered rag of her former self — penniless, debt-ridden, ailing with stomach ulcers, and a throat tumor, compressed into two rooms with her husband and mother."
Her legs were badly scarred and infected, she was malnourished, she had never gone to school and she had spent most of her life confined to this small, dark room.