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who slighted any of his friends committed a terrible social error. This duty was considered so important in Baltimore that buggy drivers patroled the streets on New Year’s day to help the valiant young men, who had long since lost their ability to drive, make it to every house on their list for a New Year’s drink.
—In some places in the Virginia mountains, families opened all the doors and windows in the house on New Year’s eve at midnight, regardless of the weather. They recited a little verse before doing so:
"Open the west door
And let the old year go.
Sing reign of fair maid
With gold upon her chin.
Open your east door, And let the New Year in. ”
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