Faces of Christmas PastThis Exceptional Memoir speaks with wit and grace to the perils of Christmas and self-imposed ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas xerox). |
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... rummage , find not only last years ' Christmas cards ( a sizable lump ) , but the last ten years ' , maybe twenty . Some senders are now dead from inevitable age or bad luck . Some are divorced , some re - married , some not ; some ...
... rummage , find not only last years ' Christmas cards ( a sizable lump ) , but the last ten years ' , maybe twenty . Some senders are now dead from inevitable age or bad luck . Some are divorced , some re - married , some not ; some ...
Page 54
... rummage , brood , and pro- crastinate on my way to writing the annual Christmas let- ter . I'll give you the first page so that you can participate in the flavor of this annual ceremony . Dear Friends , I begin this letter in Pierre ...
... rummage , brood , and pro- crastinate on my way to writing the annual Christmas let- ter . I'll give you the first page so that you can participate in the flavor of this annual ceremony . Dear Friends , I begin this letter in Pierre ...
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Afton Bill Holm bleak midwinter blizzard Bowl boxes Busoni candle carols cheer CHRISTMAS BELLS Christmas essay Christmas Eve Christmas gift Christmas letter Christmas music CHRISTMAS PAST Christmas photos Christmas pieces Christmas rites church on Christmas clutches of GrĂ½la color cowboy of 1949 cute dark Deacon leaps dead dishes escape FACES OF CHRISTMAS Faxi fifty friends gauds ghost good-will goose hunter Gudrun half-pint human Icelandic Christmas immigrant farm inside interior Christmas invented Jona and Big kitsch language light Liszt little cowboy lives Longfellow's loved Madagascar mandolin manger scene Minneota mother old Christmas cards old country pack rat painted patches peace on earth photo cards photographs piano Pierre pile play poem quiet Right prevail rites of civilization ritual rummage Santa Claus Seasons Greetings sentence sometimes song Of peace soprano South Dakota stanzas stories tions tradition trolls twenty wind wind-chills window wooden plates Wrong shall fail