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Christmas is one week away.

And how am I celebrating?

With restraint and circumspection. In the Gladwell family,

we do a mid-century modern Christmas, spare, elegant, minimalist. Lots of the baby Jesus

in a tasteful Scandinavian leather and rosewood manger. No Santa, no reindeer, no elves. Not so for my colleague, Ben Nadav Haffrey.

The glables impose a dollar limit on gifts, like price controls in some socialist state.

The Nadav Haferys spend months thinking of what to get one another.

The glabbles buy a tree at the last moment and would be happier if we could just move the whole operation outside around the Douglas Pine in the backyard.

Ben's family has a tree, a little model village covered in snow, and his father's vintage electric train set, plus a little metal tree with ornaments that's up year-round.

So when I told Ben that I had never watched,

It's a Wonderful Life, he was stunned.

Then he reached out to me,

as the Good Samaritan did to the traveler lying bereft by the side of the road,

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