Copyright © 2003 by Robert Vaughan

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Scriptures are from the KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vaughan, Robert, 1937-
    Christmas past : when the power of love reaches across time /Robert Vaughan.
      p. cm.
    ISBN 0-7852-6235-0 (hardcover)
    I. Title.
    PS3572.A93 C48 2003
    813'.54--dc21                                                            2003012679

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