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Sending Greetings .
“Merry Christmas!” The ' custom of extending holiday greetings to friends undoubt- . edly goes back many years, but the Christmas card as a means of expressing those greetings is a relative newcomer to Christmas traditions.
Christmas cards had their beginning only 122 years ago ■ in England, but despite the comparatively recent start, ' saying “Merry Christmas” in
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