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Easter Memories

Every year my mom would get us chocolate coconut-filled eggs from Williams Chocolates with our names on them. They were beautiful to me. They always had scrolls or flowers too.

We always got solid chocolate bunnies too. No hollow things. Real chocolate from Williams and later Gertrude Hawks.
Easter dresses (even when mine were occasional hand-me-downs they took my breath away).
Easter hats. I wasn't fond of those chin straps but I liked the hats okay.
Singing some favorite Easter Hymns "Christ The Lord is Risen Today", "Up From the Grave He Arose", "He Lives"
Easter plays at church. I got to be in a few and I loved it.
Sunrise services. Getting up when it was dark and shivering outside as we sang those hymns and heard the story of the resurrection.
Sunrise Services at Patapsco State Park followed by a breakfast cooked on the grills there.
Easter Egg Hunts
Jelly beans (esp. the licorice ones)
The first taste of gourmet jelly beans
White chocolate crosses (a favorite of mine when I was a pre-teen/teen)
The awe I realized when I heard the verse "If our hopes in Christ are limited to this life only then we are the most pitiable of all men".
Easter dinners
Celebrating The Resurrection with friends and family

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