Unique gift tells woman’s life story

Lucille Hoppes has been around for 82 Christmases. This one, however, was the best one yet, and one that she will carry in her heart throughout the New Year.

"I've had some good ones, but this was the best Christmas I've ever had," she said. "This was just unique."

So unique, in fact, that the 83-year-old said she was left speechless. "I couldn't talk. All I could do was cry,"

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This photographic tribute to Lucille Hoppes and her late husbands, Paul Amos and
David Hoppes (from left, in photograph), gave the 83-year-old Shelbyville woman
"the best Christmas" ever. LuAnn Mason photo