The Best Stories You've nEver Read #30

In the last doll, the memories live on...

Today's entry comes from a collection of holiday stories appearing in the Charlotte Observer. "The Gift" is a series about the things we've received, the things we've given, the things we remember, says the Observer. Here's one of them: Every Christmas Penny Standridge's father gave her a doll. When she was 20, he gave her one unlike all the others.Be sure to click on the video that accompanies this story. Very moving.

-- Dick Weiss