An article was published in Helsingin Sanomat 50 years ago that is still relevant. In it, the young man told touchingly what an alcoholic child’s Christmas is like.
Helsingin Sanomat The website occasionally returns to the local news of the current cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen 50 years ago.
At that time, the municipalities were known as the City of Helsinki, the City of Espoo and the Rural Municipality of Helsinki.
This time, however, let us be silent on the text published in the Youth Post column on Christmas Eve 1971. The text is not place-bound or time-bound.
Let’s give under the pseudonym Herr. the young writer himself will say in the title: Christmas is not coming for us.
This is how he writes:
There will be Christmas and candles. Peaceful evenings and love.
It all comes to you having a good, fit home and understanding parents. You can look forward to rosy gift boxes with excitement and be happy.
Christmas is not coming to my home. I don’t eat ham on the eve night and I don’t open the rolls. I don’t go to Grandma or other cities for Christmas.
I am away from the joys of others. I am a child of an alcoholic. For me, Christmas is suffering. Watch the drunk father and clean up his tracks.
I don’t understand how many can be so ungrateful to their home, even though they have everything galore. I can value peace and quiet – I learn it.
But one day I will spend my own dream Christmas. A real feast. I am and I enjoy.
I wish my father could.
Herr.
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