Antique Christmas cards from people whose names I recognize but whose faces and personalities are long gone. Jeanne Hentschel. Neal Buckaloo. What a great name on Neal. I should use him as a character. The next novel I write, I will go back into these files again and dredge up character names. Real names. Fantastic names. Names from long, long ago. Like the deer, tiny as rabbits, gamboling on a snowy card, and the holly, still bright after all these years.