This is my tree top decoration. It's pretty typical. No Letterman meatball at the top of our tree. I've been part of a "star" family since I was a little kid. Here is a picture of a tree from that time. You can tell that's from the '70s, right? Those drapes are wonderful. This is a photo from 1976 and note that tinsel was still all the rage. But check out the star on top. That's all I knew for Christmas tree-toppers for all of my youth. Then I met who would become my wife. And I remember that first Christmas when I came over to her house in 1987. The tree stood in her living room, right near the door and, as I looked up, the top didn't have a star. It looked so weird. As if the top of the tree wasn't complete. As if it wasn't even a Christmas tree . Instead, the top of the tree was graced with an angel. It's a perfectly logical tree-topper, of course. We're still looking up in the sky for it. But it seemed so different . ...
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