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6
Dec
2017
Look out! Here comes another Christmas! What started as a purely religious celebration, of an unrecorded birth of an illegitimate infant in an obscure Jewish village, has gradually evolved into a social juggernaut based on family togetherness and over-indulgence.
Besides being an annual bonanza for retail sales.
Christmas comes around very year, as predictably as winter. Which is followed by spring, and then summer, autumn, and another winter.
Fifty years ago, Joni Mitchell captured that cyclical pattern in a song: “And the seasons they go round and round…”
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