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Collected Item: “Covid Christmas”

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Covid Christmas

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Christmas in Covid

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On Christmas morning of 2020, we had an unsusually... boring Christmas. We would usually have family over for the holidays, or we would go and visit. This time it was the four of us, My father, mother, my younger brother, and me. My brother and I entered the living room where our Christmas tree was displayed, We had quite a few presents under our tree this year. So my brother and I took our turns and opened gifts. One of my Uncles would usually be so frustrated with all the wrapping paper on the ground when presents were being opened. He wasn't here his time, so everytime trash was being picked up my brother would say "It's the ghost of our uncle....." When the presents were opening my brother and I were bragging about what we got, and then our Christmas morning was essentially over. Since we didn't have family over thisyear we invited a few friends to come over since they didn't really have much to do either. They came over and we had quite a bit of fun the rest of the day. Although it wasn't as lively as Christmas with our family was. We then sat down to eat dinner which was prime rib, greens, macaroni and cheese, shrimp, and dinner rolls. We later on went to bed as nothing else had to be done.

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Covid-19

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2020-12-25
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