What a box of contradictions Christmas is. There’s the quest for presents – which can get urgent and exhilarated in the case of kids who haven’t laid down with stringent exactitude what it is that they want – but there can also be the feeling of intense fulfilment that you’ve got it right and that it really is more blessed to give rather than receive as if we were all Christians under the skin.
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