Welcome to another installment of Christmas in quarantine.

It's Christmas Past's impromptu miniseries of indeterminate length, all about spreading

Christmas cheer during these uncertain times with the COVID-19 crisis.

Today is Day 22. It is also, technically speaking, episode 104 of Christmas

Past. I say technically speaking because that number also includes things I've released as

trailers for the upcoming season. But if we're only counting actual episodes of Christmas

past, the 100th episode is still ahead of us. In fact, it's the next one to come out.

So I've decided to take a couple of days to put together something very special for you.

So I hope you can forgive me for taking a couple days off.

Christmas in quarantine was supposed to be daily, but your 100th episode only happens once, and I want to get it right.

I also want to make sure that you're part of it.

Sharing your voices on Christmas Past is my favorite thing about doing this show,

and I don't want to miss the opportunity to make you part of the celebration.

Record a voice memo into your phone and send it to Christmas Past podcast at gmail.com.

It could be as simple as a little shout out to me, a shout

out to a loved one, a Christmas memory, a joke, some tips on being quarantined, really anything

that you want to share with the Christmas Past family, because that's what this show is all about.

Try to send it to me by Easter so that I can be sure to include it when the episode comes out.

Now, today we're picking up where we left off yesterday, reading that 1832 story by Miss Mant,

Christmas, a happy time, a tale calculated for the amusement and instruction of young persons.

Last we left off, the Mortimer family was getting ready to have some Christmassy activities

now that the boys are home from school. Let's see what transpires during the second half of the story. I'll come

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