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It's a special holiday edition of Craigslist Misconnections today.

Okay, we're really getting in the spirit, I see.

And during this time of year, there's only two places to find true love.

One is on the ice skating rink next to the hockey players beating each other with frozen

eulogues. I think those are eulogues. The second is on the pages of Craigslist.org.

We scour that website every week and we found the best holiday misconnections

that they had to offer us. Like this first one titled,

you helped me pick out the perfect Christmas tree.

Oh, I love this one. Woman for man, 73 behind the strip mall.

Find love there. She says, I'm kind of an office when it comes to picking out Christmas trees.

My second husband Gerald, God rest his soul, used to cut them down himself by taking them out

of other people's yards. Oh, you sound like you're 101. She had a rough life, it was for 70 years.

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