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December is a month when a lot of people are thinking about family and tradition.

Reliving memories, retelling old stories.

Each year, those stories get passed down.

Sometimes with new details or a different twist and so on and so on over time.

Until eventually, many of those stories have nothing to do with what actually happened.

Our editor, Leah Denella, became obsessed with one such family legend.

She's heard a lot of different versions over the years, often around the holidays,

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