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Once an editor asked me if I usually wrote about people I had actually met and things I had actually seen… and I said, “Yes.”  

And he said, “Oh. Well, I was just wondering because if you only write about people you have actually met and things you have actually seen, sooner or later you will run out of interesting things to write.”

And I said, “That depends.”

And he said, ”Oh?”

And I said, “That depends on who you meet … and what you see when you meet them.” 

And he said… “Oh.”

I think ‘firsts’ are an important and interesting reality. I will tell you what I mean.:

We didn’t cut our own Christmas tree this year.
No stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.
No Currier and Ives snap shots;
No selfies of she and I, standing in some snowdrift,
Cold as a Minnesota winter, and surrounded by green forest;
No sock hats, or gloves or … the search for a perfect Christmas tree.