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Simple Christmas: An Advent Guide

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Deidre Braley
Nov 15, 2022
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A friend and I were joking the other day that our favorite times to celebrate Christmas are late October and early January. Why?

Because the real Christmas season is too jam-packed to actually enjoy. We prefer those quiet fringe months, without all the hype and those expectations to lick envelopes and scour internet sales and party in sweaters with tangl…

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