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Our topic today, it's Christmas season, it's almost Christmas time, almost Christmas

day, I should say, it's December 23rd, where I am, so just two more days to Christmas,

so I thought, let's do a Christmas topic today, we're going to talk about the Christmas

spirit of grace, a very nice word, grace, a very, very, very beautiful word in English,

let's talk about it, let me just see how we're doing, people joining, now we got a lot

of people joining, hi, chumipon, good to see you, can, good to see you, pretty, Annie,

recognizing, a lot of sloths here, good, yep, looks like we got a lot of people joining,

okay, let's talk about it, and then we'll get in, do the scorpion, good to see you again,

who's feeling good to see you as always, all right, let's talk about it, grace, so this

topic, I started thinking about Christmas when I was younger, so let's say, of course,

when I was a child, but, but even, yeah, I'd say even up to like, um, to my 20s, so that

would be through the 1980s, and even a little bit into the 1990s, and Christmas was a really

magical time then in the United States, maybe it still is in other countries now, I hope

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