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It's OK to Skip the Holiday Gatherings This Year
It’s beginning to look a lot like this sucks...
OK, so, the holidays picked a really terrible time to show up this year: a few short weeks after a nation-splintering, Democracy-threatening, relationship-shattering election, the destructive, disorienting tremors of which have only just begun.
And right now, still in the initial haze of shock and grief, tens of millions of us are looking at the calendar and feeling the knot in our stomach twist around itself as we face the nauseating prospect of having to fake a smile and make nice and pretend that all is merry and bright, while seated at the…
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