Another Christmas come and gone. Presents opened, colorful wrapping paper
discarded. I had a wonderful Christmas
season with family visits, cold weather in Utah and warm weather in California.
The Lovely Sharon and I had dinners with friends; we had Christmas Prime Rib at
home and attended a lovely Christmas morning Mass.
Beginning around December 1st I started watching
the Hallmark TV Channel round the clock Christmas movies. I especially liked the Dog who Saved
Christmas. That Dog was a good actor
and was so in tuned with the Christmas Spirit.
I cried when he high fived the 12 year old son of the family at the end
of the movie. You just are amazed at how a dog can figure out the family
problems, develop a sound and effective plan to solve those problems and get it
all done by Christmas Eve. That is truly
a great dog.
From watching all of these Christmas movies, I was surprised
how many people (the “harassed family member") rent fake boyfriends, fake
girlfriends and fake fiancée’s (the “fake beloved”) to bring back home to their
small town family Christmas celebration, never thinking that the rental of a fake
beloved might result in some zany problem and embarrassing disclosure to the
unsuspecting family. I saw three or four
of these movies. The plots are pretty
much the same. The harassed family
member going back home for Christmas is tired of the harassment from the family
for not having found someone who they would eventually marry. The harassed family member hires someone to
play their beloved for Christmas. The
fake beloved is given a crash background course about the family and the harassed
family member. A phony history of the fake beloved and the harassed family
member is created so the unsuspecting family can be told of how their wonderful
romance developed. The family really likes
the fake beloved and the harassed family member actually falls in love with the
fake beloved. in a two day period The fake romance is found
out and the fake beloved leaves and everyone is sad, angry and/or disappointed. The family realizes the harassed family
member has, over Christmas, fallen in love with the fake beloved and they all tell
the harassed family member to go find the fake beloved and bring him/her back
to the family. The fake beloved is
brought back, everyone is happy and no doubt a wedding will occur in the near
future.
Courting and marrying the Lovely Sharon was hard enough and
our relationship was and is real. If she
would have been my fake girlfriend and then my fake fiancée, can you imagine
how tough that would have been? Come to
think of it, when she took me back to Nebraska for the first time, she gave me
a crash course about her family and she took me to visit the members of her
extended family and she took me to visit the members of her ex-husband’s family. We did not get married until a couple of years after that trip. I wonder if for that trip and for the next two years if I was the fake beloved?
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