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My grandmas and aunts get together each winter for a day of baking Christmas cookies.

When the oven’s hot and full and the kitchen smells spicy my great-grandma Rebecca tells us her story of the gingerbread doll.

It happened in 1930 during the Great Depression when people were terribly poor.

She was only nine years old, living on a farm in Wisconsin.

She remembers boots crunching through the snow surrounding the narrow farmhouse.

Her mama had to feed the animals,

even on Christmas morning.

Rebecca pulled the blankets around her to fight off the chill.

She was the first one awake except for her parents.

Heat from the stove barely reached the upstairs bedrooms.

That’s why Mama had tacked cardboard over the window.

Rebecca pulled it out a little to see.

Frost patterns iced the glass, and it would have been a perfect Christmas picture except for the way her mother struggled with the heavy bucket.

我的祖母和阿姨每年冬天都会聚在一起烤一天的圣诞饼干。

当烤箱又热又满，厨房闻起来很辣时，我的曾祖母丽贝卡向我们讲述了她关于姜饼娃娃的故事。

它发生在 1930 年大萧条时期，当时人们非常贫穷。

她只有九岁，住在威斯康星州的一个农场。

她记得靴子在狭窄农舍周围的雪地上嘎吱作响。

她的妈妈不得不喂动物，

即使在圣诞节的早晨。

丽贝卡拉过她身上的毯子来驱寒。

除了父母，她是第一个醒来的人。

炉子的热量几乎没有到达楼上的卧室。

这就是妈妈把硬纸板钉在窗户上的原因。

丽贝卡把它拿出来看看。

冰霜图案使玻璃结冰，这本来是一幅完美的圣诞照片，除了她母亲在沉重的水桶上挣扎的样子。