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t sounds odd, I know, but that is exactly what
its products beautifully. Products with names like
my friend Mary gave to me last Christmas—
“Purity” and “Season of Bubbles” and “Renewed
Amazing Grace in a jar! It was a small pink
Hope” are some of their bestsellers. Under the
jar with a white lid, and it contained the
words amazing grace on my jar is the sub-text: “with
smoothest, sweetest-smelling whipped body lotion
every act of grace, the world gains a touch more
I have ever seen or felt. Its fragrance was heavenly.
love.”
And it was the most thoughtful, kindest gift I could
I was going through a downward spiral that
have received at the precise moment Mary gave
first pandemic Christmas. It seems a lifetime ago
it to me. Not just for the contents of the jar, which
now, Christmas of 2020. But nine months into the
were truly amazing and luxurious. But for the
shutdown—with remote work, isolation, a vaccine
name of it and what it represents. “Amazing Grace”
that seemed too far in the future, and a Christmas
whipped body crème is from a company that names
devoid of gathering with loved ones—I just felt
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