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Taylor Family Research Paper

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“We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” Christmas was always in my mind no matter what time of year it was. I discovered a couple months back that our close family friends, the Taylors, could not afford anything to get their children any Christmas presents. I had a prompting to share this detail with the rest of my family members and we acted upon this news. We decided to take this opportunity to serve our great family friends, which we owed so much to them for all that they have done for us. We decided to save our money and that we each would not get more than five Christmas presents for ourselves. Instead, we would have our Christmas presents be contributed towards the family. That would be our Christmas present. To be able to give back and see how happy the Taylor family would be on Christmas day. …show more content…

This list was very long, for they have fifteen members of their family. Preparing the list meant that the next step was shopping for the family. That also meant a lot of shopping for the Taylor family. Another act of service was shown when our other family friends, the Gilberts, donated two thousand dollars to help purchase gifts for the Taylor family. They are also close with the Taylors and wanted to help contribute to this Secret Santa act.
As the list was finally finished, the shopping began. I got to travel to many stores with my mother as we searched for the needed items for the Taylors. I couldn’t contain my excitement while we were shopping. I just had a joyful feeling as we shopped. It really brought the Christmas spirit and made me even more excited to hear about the Taylors’ Christmas. We collected and bought all the presents for the Taylors and our living room was filling up with the many gifts. That meant it was time for us to begin

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