NK - Here's another heart warming Yule story!

[Bethor2000 at aol.com]

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  Man commits suicide because he can't afford Christmas tree
 1.14 p.m. ET (1815 GMT) December 17, 1998

 BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A 50-year-old Romanian man killed himself
 because he couldn't afford to buy a Christmas tree for his daughter, a
newspaper
 reported Thursday. 

 Ion Done, a divorced father who lived with his widowed mother and 10-year-old
 daughter, took own his life after an argument Tuesday with his mother, who
 wanted him to buy a Christmas for the little girl, daily Evenimentul Zilei
reported. 

 Done, whose occupation was unknown, said he couldn't afford the luxury of a
 tree. 

 After the argument he threw himself out of the sixth-floor apartment where he
 lived in the city of Braila, 110 miles northeast of Bucharest. He died
immediately,
 the paper said. 

 Christmas trees in Romania cost between $5 and $20 and are a luxury for
anyone
 earning the country's average monthly salary of $120. 

 Only about one in ten Romanians can afford trees. Many people instead
purchase
 evergreen branches, which are cheaper. 



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