An Appalachian Christmas Story
This story gave me goose bumps. Silver Packages is a wonderfully enchanting Christmas Story. It is a story of good deeds being returned. Because of the kind heart of someone many years before helping an injured man just passing through; the Christmas train came to be. Legend is that the man who was helped so many years before repays the good deed by bringing gifts wrapped in silver each year at Christmas. The train never fails to show up and the man always throws gifts to everyone. The gifts are always practical things such as socks, scarves, and mittens. They also include a toy of some sort. The boy in the story tells of each year wanting a doctors kit but always getting something he needed and toy that was not the doctor kit he wanted. When the boys grows into a man he returns to the town and waits for the train to thank the man but his attention is drawn to a little girl who has taken a bad fall. He runs to help her and identifies himself as a doctor.
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