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Sat 11 Nov 2009Christmas with a twist
Go Feedback: An exotic Yuletide holiday many years ago sticks in the mind of Goreader Nuala Smith
THAT CHRISTMAS, and it was to be her last, my mother treated my nine-year-old daughter and me to a cruise on the Nile. This solved the annual crisis over what to do about Christmas, as, with few relations, and even fewer who’d have us over, we’d had it with the too-heavy lunch that usually ended with someone being in a huff or herself swearing vengeance on the gas company or the butcher.
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