"I just want the Christmas," he muttered to his reflection in a storefront window, "without the 'some assembly required.'"
He stood up, walked to his closet, and dug through a box of "junk" until he found a single, chipped ceramic reindeer with a missing leg. He carefully tucked it into a gap between two perfect glass globes. The tree was still "designer," but now it was finally home. where can i buy a christmas tree already decorated
"I’ll take that one," Elias said, pointing to a slim, pre-lit balsamic beauty decorated in "Modern Minimalist"—just white lights and frosted glass spheres. "I just want the Christmas," he muttered to
The elevator in Elias’s apartment building was out of service again, which was the final sign he needed. Between his seventy-hour work weeks and a persistent head cold, the idea of untangling a ball of green wire and wrestling a Douglas fir up six flights of stairs felt like a Herculean labor he wasn’t prepared to win. "I’ll take that one," Elias said, pointing to