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Christmas, as the old poem goes, comes but once a year. For some people, that is deeply, deeply unfair. Why should they get just one month a year—or two or three, in modern retail time—to gather with their friends and loved ones, to think about peace and goodwill toward their fellow humans, to eat cookies, and, most of all, to bask in the lights and decorations they keep hidden away in storage the rest of the year? Is there a law that says you have to put your Christmas decorations away by Jan. 6?

No, there is not! Even I, a Jewish person who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, am not immune to the joy and silliness of what is euphemistically known as the holiday season,

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