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My family's big push about Christmas was that it was "family get together time". This would make sense if my dad's ENTIRE family didn't also get together for Easter, 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Birthdays, and Thanksgiving. Both parents families are religious, but I have found myself in the last few years fading into the background as the Christmas story is read before presents are opened.
If we get a chance to go to Minnesota and visit my mom's family for Christmas, I truly do look forward to the holiday because I see this side of my family probably once every 3-5 years. My gramma was horror stricken when we wouldn't let her go to church Christmas morning one year because it was so cold the car wouldn't start.
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna
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