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   Home > Magazine > Articles from the Archives > Fall / Holiday 2007 > A Christmas Cottage   

 

"I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all year."

CHARLES DICKENS

It was October when Trish and Larry Paolini first met Dorothy McLenon. They were looking for their dream home in Naples, Florida, and the first house they were shown belonged to her. Trish was surprised to see a decorated Christmas tree on the porch. “I love Christmas and told her it was nice to see someone decorating so early in the season,” she recalls. “Dorothy replied, ‘Sweetheart, I’ve had that tree up for fifteen years. One Christmas, I couldn’t bear to take it down, so it’s been up ever since.’' Hearing this, Trish turned to Larry and whispered, “This is our Christmas Cottage.”

The spirit of this home has been kept alive by Trish and Larry, at the request by the owner not to tear it down. Tearing the house down was never an option for the Paolinis. Their newly discovered love for Old Naples and its history is the beginning of a warm tale about this historic home - a couple's dream Christmas cottage and its gentle renovation.

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The Christmas Cottage
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by Terry Pommett