Favorite memories come alive through Christmas decorations

Dec. 14—I dragged the last tangled strand of lights out of the plastic tub. In the bottom, amid the detritus of decoration, the sawdust of so many hall-deckings in Yuletides before, there was something else: Several folded paper hearts, each the size of a fingerprint. They'd been outlined in pencil and quickly cut with scissors. Now they peppered the bottom of a box of lights, one of many. Our …