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TlalocW

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46. Non-secular

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 11:46 AM

Dec 2015

Usually, I drive a couple hundred miles to where most of the rest of my family is, and we gather at my sister and brother-in-law's house. They're pretty religious, but other than a few, surprisingly polite, political arguments, the only mention of religion is the blessing before the food.

This is my first Christmas without my mom though so I'm not feeling it so I'll stay in town and go over to my niece's house with my other sister. There's a bit of a rift between that niece and another one that shows up at the gathering a couple hundred miles away so her family hasn't gone to that gathering for several years. My niece claims that her daughter wants me around for Christmas though, and with Mom gone I don't have an excuse.

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