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Holiday Exhaustion

Who could enjoy the season with all these activities?

Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash

Preparations for the holidays always began after Halloween in my family. My siblings and I were tasked with cleaning duties — scrubbing the walls, shelves, vacuuming and shampooing the carpets, and cleaning our mother’s copious amount of bric-a-brac that dotted the entire…