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   PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32  Nov 15 2020 MSC 1927   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 r3.179 Nov 15 2020 MSC 1927   
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   Dennis,   
      
    DK> Christmas seems empty and nihilistic to me, as if the visual forms are   
    DK> still present, but the substance isn't there.  I tell people who ask me   
    DK> what to get them, to get me nothing, because the whole   
    DK> commercialisation of Christmas turns it into a chore, a grind, an   
    DK> obligation and little more.   
      
     I tell them that "Santa heard I was good...he laughed so hard that   
   he peed and pooped all over himself...so, he's not coming to my place".    
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac: Lies awake, wondering if there IS a dog.   
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