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It's our 13th year of doing our Ghost story for Christmas specials here on Monster Talk.

You know, I've been meaning to talk to you people about procrastination for some time.

I've been doing this for 13 years.

That's 13 years of meaning to do this tradition in real life.

And finally, I got my kids together and sat down by the Christmas

tree in front of the fireplace and read this year's selection to a live audience. So normally,

when the audio quality is kind of iffy on this show, I feel the need to say something

apologetic about it. But I am so unabashedly delighted that I finally got my family to join me

and my madness that I have no regrets about the sound design.

One thing that absolutely delighted me was that there's points in this story where the author is making jokes of the driest British style,

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