No, hello there and happy holidays. If you're like me, your mailbox and inbox are beginning

to fill with the obligatory year end updates from family and friends. Exotic vacations,

fulfilling careers, the accomplishments of so many perfect children. Ah, it is the season.

And so we've collected a few Christmas news letters for some festive fun. Names and locations

have been changed, of course, because if there is one thing I've learned in all my years,

it's that there's always room to read between the lines. And chances are, it's a wonderful lie.

Welcome back to It's a Wonderful Lie, everybody. I'm Ashley Flowers joined by Holly Laurent.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays! Woohoo! And Greg has. Here we are again, I can't wait.

Oh, you guys. I have a good one today. There's a lot going on in this letter.

Always good for these. So someone in our letter, it's really interesting. They worked for the

Kebler factory, which is like Hashtag Dream Drops. Oh, totally. Are they an L?

It's an actual L for the actual L for the actual L. But it got me thinking about like my favorite

Christmas cookies. Like do you guys, do you guys make cookies that are part of like any tradition you

have or like is there a favorite Christmas cookie? You know, it's kind of cute. And this is not

something that I ever did past my early 20s. But my first roommate's right out of college. We

are all super broke and living in Chicago and probably living off $300 a year. We used to have

a Christmas cookie party and make cookies together, which is so like what? Yeah, three guys.

We have for some reason we were it was like and we would be in this tiny little kitchen with an

oven that always sort of was on the verge of blowing up. And we used to make Christmas cookies and

decorate them every year, which is so. Very awesome. Very wholesome. Very wholesome. This just having

this conversation makes me think like I think I want to get some cookie cutters and makes some.

I've never ever done it. I always you've never made Christmas cookies. Your dad's like basically Santa.

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