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So This Is Christmas

What's so bad about ritual?

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Addison Del Mastro
Dec 25, 2023
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This is the eight Christmas my wife and I are spending with my parents (her parents are in China, and their big Christmas-equivalent holiday is the Chinese New Year, in January or February.) I like to say that we basically get an extra “holiday season” in that cold, deep part of winter. We haven’t gotten to visit China in quite awhile, but every year we…

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