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It's easy when the holidays roll around to put a nice sepia tone on that time of year.

You think back to your childhood holidays and the bad stuff that happened, the disappointing

gifts, family fights, it all kind of gets washed out with that warm loving glow.

Maybe your memory of Christmas has passed are a bit more like Andy Richter's.

The ones that I really remember, my stepfather had a plumbing business, so we had some

Christmas that were just an orgy of consumerism and then a couple of them were, you know,

and then the next year would be sort of like, wow, Santa's had, had it rough this year,

I guess.

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