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Now, today's first story comes from a throwaway account titled, My Girlfriend Left Me

for Putting the Christmas Tree Up.

I was single-handedly raised by my grandfather.

He is like a father to me. He did his best to give me a normal childhood in an effort to try

make up for my father not being there. My grandfather loves Christmas. He always made sure

that we had the best day ever. We weren't well off and most of his gifts were handmade.

This made it even more special because he was very good at creating things from wood and

they were fascinating.

He taught me everything I know and I am so grateful for that.

We would bake cookies and make delicious dinner from scratch and sit by the fire doing puzzles.

We still live together and I am the one taking care of him now. My girlfriend stays with us

and it has been a year of that now. My grandfather has been unwell for a while and he is only getting

worse. The doctor does not think he will make it till the end of this year. I am very devastated and I feel like my whole world is falling apart but I am trying not

to show it.

On a particularly bad day for him, my grandfather asked me, is it Christmas yet?

And when I said no, he continued to tell me how he can't wait for it and how he will make

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