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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Column December 21, 2008

STOLEN CAR. CHRISTMAS ANGELS

(Reprinted from December 26,1995)

It came upon a midnight clear two weeks ago in Jacksonville
that my car was stolen.

Having your car stolen anytime is a bad deal but when it
happens in a big city late on a bitterly cold night leaving you
stranded and all alone, it is much worse.

When it happens in a dark, unfamiliar area and you don’t
have access to a telephone, that just adds to the anger and
frustration.

I saw no ready answers to my most immediate questions
that bleak night. How can I get out of this windy, freezing

weather? How can I get back home to Lake City tonight?

I saw lots of Christmas decorations at homes all around me

but there were no good tidings of great joy that I could find
that miserable, cold night. Or so I thought.

Then, Lo and Behold, the first of three human angels
miraculously entered my life.

THE FIRST ANGEL

I knew this much for sure. If I knocked on anyone’s door that
late at night, they would ignore me-or, at best, talk to me

through their
locked door and tell me to go someplace else for help. Who
could blame them?

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