The Christmas Memory - Summary

The main character, Buddy, is a 7 years old boy who is friends with his cousin, a 60 something woman. They always made about 30 fruitcakes for their  on Christmas. Friends they had talked to only a few times in their life. They work the whole year to get the money to buy material for the fruitcake. They worked all day to cut the Christmas tree from the forest. They made each other handmade kites because they don't have money to buy the gift. His friend really wanted to get Buddy a bike but she didn't get enough money. After that Christmas Buddy went to a military school and that Christmas become the last Christmas they spend together. Year after year his friend become feebler until one day she couldn't say "its fruitcake's weather" when the fruitcake's weather came.