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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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 Grıla 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