Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that’s all, he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen’s parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

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Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that’s all, he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen’s parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

-- Anonymous

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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

-- Sylvia Plath

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.

-- Alfred Tennyson

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Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

-- Johnny Carson

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Some people say they want a Prince Charming, But I on the other hand, Say I don’t. That’s because I have a guy a billion times better than that. I love you more each Valentine’s Day.

-- Anonymous

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There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake on Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck, in I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

-- Anonymous

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