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As promised, a more cheerful holiday segment after my “Ghosts of Christmas Past” blog which turned out a bit darker than expected. These are still based on the “Twelve Days of Christmas” writing prompt, which is quite interesting! If you try to recall past holidays, not just from videos or photos, what comes to mind? You might be surprised.
1) I’m at the mall, working at a gift wrap station as a fundraiser for our figure skating team. I’m about sixteen. After a couple of hours wrapping gift boxes and toys, a man walks over with a brand-new, full-sized floor lamp to be wrapped.
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Christmas is full of anticipation and impossible expectations, whether child or adult. I remember my grandmother, aged ninety-eight, speaking about Barack Obama, poised to win his first US election. “Poor man,” she said–demonstrating, as usual, that she’d retained every marble– “how can he possibly live up to these expectations?”
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