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His year you will receive the nineteen hundred and seventyfirst Christmas that this wobbly old world has seen since it was sent spinning on its axis millions of years ago! this precious, indeed priceless, treasure comes magnificently wrapped in layer upon glittering layer of customs and traditions borrowed from many countries and families through the centuries. Here is your gift! Begin now to remove the wrappings so that you will arrive in Bethlehem Christmas Eve.
Even before Advent wreaths appear in some churches and the lighting of the first candle leaves only three more Sundays before Christmas, the store windows have burst into tinsel, lights, and animated Santa Clauses. These are the first wrappings to come off, closely following by the tingling aroma of a dozen different kinds of cookies, fruitcakes, and candies, that are baked and stored for the holidays. Then, in delightful succession, off come the layers of cherubic choirs in wide red bows practicing carols with more good will than tune; the Salvation Army bell ringers on the street corners; lines of short wishers waiting to speak privately with Santa; church choirs assembling for the mighty choruses of “The Messiah;” the ordering of Christmas cards to be made from a family snapshot of last year’s snow scene; the receipt of the first Open House invitation; to say nothing of the veiled hints
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