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com Hello and welcome'm Rob and I am Rob and I am so excited. Oh yeah why's that Rob? You know Fay Fay. It's that festive time of year

presents parties time of the family snow. Oh did I mention presents?

Yes Rob. It's Christmas time. Come on, Faye Faye

aren't you excited? Imagine if we had lots of Christmases all at the same time? Oh no

think of the cost of buying all those presents.

But hopefully you'd receive lots of presents too.

Anyway, do you know that for some people, all their Christmases can come at once?

I don't think so. Okay well they're not really Christmases but if

someone has extreme good fortune it's like the feeling of having lots of

Christmases all at the same time.

Oh, I got it. Having all your Christmases come at once

just means having lots of good luck.

Yes, let's hear from some people who've had all their Christmases come at once.

Lucky then.

Yeah, I've got a pay rise and I'm off on holiday tomorrow and I've won the lottery. Seems like all my

Christmases have come at once. The day I got married I heard I'd passed my exams and

got a promotion so it felt like all my Christmases had come at once.

All my Christmases have come at once. My parents bought me a new car. I got a place at university and I've got a new girlfriend.

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