I’ve decided to give you an extension on your book club reading assignment because, well, I was ambushed by Christmas this year. To be fair, I get ambushed by Christmas every year. A couple of weeks into the summer drinking season, I look up and—bam!—there’s a gigantic fat man standing over me in a seasonally inappropriate red fur suit, holding a tinsel…
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