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A rioja to beat the new year blues

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

There was only one flaw in my Christmas this year. I did not spend enough of it with Santa Claus-age children. It is of course easier to delight in the charm if one does not live with the brats all year round. However adorable they may be, there are moments when they are also living instances of the doctrine of Original Sin.

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