It’s Monday morning, four days shy of Christmas, and she’s getting the gifts ready.
Growing up, she always wanted to be a teacher — even when she played school with her brother and sister as a kid, she was always the teacher, they would later say. She has since been a country club waitress and a pharmacist’s assistant, but now Christy Mirack has her own class of sixth graders. The 25-year-old isn’t going to disappoint. The night before, Mirack stayed up wrapping a children’s book — “Miracles on Maple Hill” — for each pupil. Every copy reportedly bears the same handwritten message: “Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a great 1993! Love, Miss Mirack.”
