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Name: Polly Campenni
Holiday activity: Making gingerbread
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Age: 57
Birthplace: Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Residence: Stuart
Family: Husband, Thomas;
daughters, Cara, 32, and Sarah,
26, and son, Thomas Jr., 30
What most people don’t know
about me: “Until almost through high school, I was a painfully
shy person. I was very shy. Most people today see me
as outgoing.”
Fondest holiday memory: “My daughter has an early December
birthday. Her birthday parties were always the start
of the holiday season in our house. For her third birthday I
baked gingerbread houses from a terra-cotta mold for each of
the party attendees. The kids would decorate the houses with
all kinds of candies using white icing as glue. Each child went
home with an edible, decorated house on a tray surrounded
by snow (cotton balls). We continued the tradition for years,
even though the kids were far too old to care about gingerbread
houses. But they all still wanted to come to our house
and decorate those gingerbread houses.”
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