“We weren’t even thinking about a Christmas tree, trying to just get a roof over my family, you know. So I’ve got a Christmas tree for your family.’ And he gave me a Christmas tree,” Graham said. And he was like, ‘Hey man, I know your family’s lost everything. “The guy who runs it, I actually graduated high school with.
He gestured to a twinkling Christmas tree in the living room, courtesy of the local community center. Sitting at his dining room table, Graham surveyed the house the family had been forced to start over in.
The Grahams’ Christmas tree stands in their living room.