Describe in brief the author's meeting with connie in the story "The best christmas present?

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When the author meet with Connie , she was in the old age home because her house has been burnt and damaged by water. Her husband Jim was a German soldier . Her husband was suffering from war. Her husband Jim wrote a letter to her wife Connie to tell that how they had injoyed the Christmas in war time. When the author meet with Connie she was steel waiting for her husband Jim. She mistook that her husband Jim coming back from war

the authors wife was very sad at her separation from the bear