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Memories of a lonely, beautiful Christmas

18 December 2024

3:13 AM

18 December 2024

3:13 AM

My parents gave up on Christmas altogether once I left home for university. They had never been people for celebrations and we were a household like Belfast in the religious sense — my father, the Catholic, went to midnight mass; my mother, Anglican, to the parish church at 8 a.m.

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