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    • 21 Ratings
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    Why I Hate Bars

    JANUARY 30, 2012 11:45PM

    By Pensive Person


    Topics: childhood, parents, relationships, drunk, police, silent, forgotten, phone number, elementary, blizzard, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1044 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Simple Joys

    DECEMBER 22, 2011 9:24AM

    By Graham Sale


    Topics: commercial appeal, saturday cartoon, graham sale, men in hats, north korea, trump, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2223 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    The Gingerbread House, and Grandma Lucinda's Lemon Squares

    DECEMBER 22, 2011 12:48AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: grandmother, adoption, lemon squares, gingerbread, christmas, dessert, reunion, birthmother

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1744 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Reality AWOL in the Politics of 2011

    DECEMBER 21, 2011 12:24PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, business, 2012 republican primary contest, michele bachmann, newt gingrich, herman cain, gridlock, christmas, season of discontent

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 2598 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Little Drummer Girl In The Cemetery

    DECEMBER 20, 2011 1:38PM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: jewish, lutheran, christian, open call, my blue holiday, christmas, hallmark, griswold, merry christmas, chanukah, hanukah, cemetery, divorce, belief/religion, family, little drummer boy, bing crosby, silent night, life stories, nostalgia, dark shadows, funeral, xanax, std, barbie

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 1328 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    A Cardinal on a Pinecone

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 5:25PM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: holidays, aging parents, family, nature, cardinals, birds, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 593 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Why I Still Love Christmas....

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 2:42PM

    By Mary Richmond


    Topics: memoir, hope and joy, looking back, holiday memories, christmas memories, holiday, christmas, family, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 1513 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    My truth about Santa

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 10:22AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: the truth about santa, open call, family, divorce, santa, christmas, belief, prolonging the magic, elves, north pole

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 2166 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    The Optimist's Lament

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 9:26AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: falling down the ho-ho-hole, friends, family, christmas, my blue holiday, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 49 Ratings
    • 2617 Views
    • 92 Comments
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    Celebrating Christmas? Not So Much

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 10:33AM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: open call, holiday blues, chanukah, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 585 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Browsing Pepper Grinders

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 11:09AM

    By Meredith Phillips


    Topics: williams sonoma, sister, grief, family, christmas, als, anniversary of death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 47 Ratings
    • 1802 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Hope in a Jar

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 9:47AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: food, gifts, red chili sauce, christmas, godbothering, vintage jars, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 924 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Grandfather frost, 3 sheets to the wind

    DECEMBER 13, 2011 8:44PM

    By takingadvice


    Topics: new year's eve, new year, memory, childhood, russia, celebration, drinking, holidays, christmas, open salon, the truth about santa

    • Editor's Pick
    • 43 Ratings
    • 2532 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    On Hunger, Bulimia, and Want

    DECEMBER 13, 2011 5:15AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: appetite, hunger, bulimia, emptiness, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 510 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    The Year I Blew Santa's Cover

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 10:23PM

    By jaleend


    Topics: the truth about santa, open call, presents, magic, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 344 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Sorry, Kid, There Is No Santa Claus

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 9:55PM

    By Kellie Wardman


    Topics: the truth about santa, kids, christmas, easter bunny, leprechauns, church, unitarian, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 1405 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Christmas Without Kids

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 1:17PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: frank sinatra, march of the wooden soldiers, co-dependence, thanksgiving, family, christmas, alzheimer's, mentally ill, mothers, children

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 940 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Snows of Penderies

    DECEMBER 4, 2011 8:10PM

    By Marty'sHusband


    Topics: sledding, recovery, stroke, christmas, snow, holidays

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 610 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Et Tu, Rudolph?

    NOVEMBER 28, 2011 1:53PM

    By Phil Johnson


    Topics: santa, rudolph, occupy wall street, north pole, elves, christmas, cartoon saturday

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1407 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    The Christmas Gift

    NOVEMBER 22, 2011 9:31PM

    By Lizz Schumer


    Topics: gifts, charity, open call, christmas, holidays, heartwarming holiday stories

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