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(Tecca family via AP) Christmas stockings knitted by Martha ... “It sounds weird maybe, but there was something in there that was a little bit freeing, free of having all that stuff.

The hand-knit Christmas stockings ... which was hanging on the wall by the piano,” says Martha Tecca, whose house in Lyme, New Hampshire, burned to the ground 10 years ago.