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Knifing Through Christmas

By Corrine Errico, Cape May County native

An unexpected holiday tradition cut its way into my family in 1978. That was the year that my grandmother shared our Christmas knife with my mother.

Yes. A designated-veteran knife we use only at Christmastime for one intended purpose, and it wasn’t in the kitchen. It was for cutting wrapping paper. Why not use scissors to deck our halls like any normal family? Because the knife had five decades of stories tell.

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