I'm Derek Thompson, long time writer with the Atlantic magazine on tech, culture, and politics.

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I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've

got to wrap up warm.

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm but then you're

climbing hampsed at heath and you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see

the breath, but then your nose is still freezing to top.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

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