Christmas Dread

Reasons to not be cheerful (Part 1)

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

― Leo Tolstoy, ‘Anna Karenina’

Of course, generally speaking when we were a child we looked forward to the visit of Father Christmas. Childhood for most though is not such a pretense of make-believe and waiting for that…