The Time of Christmas Christmas 1996 promised to be one of the best times of my eighteen-year life. I was on my own in Florida! My parents had moved to Indiana earlier in the year and I managed to stay in my tropical paradise. I had a nice job, a nice apartment and best of all a boyfriend. I had everything I needed. The malls were decorated for Christmas and the radio station played Christmas carols. The women at my job talked about the toys they had put on layaway for their children and the men joked about what they wanted for Christmas or what to get their wives. My thoughts were interrupted periodically with phone calls for my offi