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    </div><p id="9422"><a href="undefined">Darren Richardson</a></p><div id="2cb9" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Remembering Christmas Gifts With Staying Power</h2>
            <div><h3>A vintage Elvis Presley ornament leads to reflections on Christmases past, present and future</h3></div>
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            <h2>“You” Just Barely Left</h2>
            <div><h3>A poem of missing a loved one the first Christmas</h3></div>
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            <h2>Presents</h2>
            <div><h3>A Haiku</h3></div>
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            <h2>Flashback Christmas Eve, 1998; The Day I Lost My Science Career Due to My Credit Score</h2>
            <div><h3>Never underestimate stupid people in large numbers.</h3></div>
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            <h2>Spending Christmas Alone</h2>
            <div><h3>Ave Maria, gratia plena.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Snowflakes Upon a Fir Tree</h2>
            <div><h3>A Monorhyme poem</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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Volume Seven of The Best Illumination Writers Christmas Reads

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And so we arrive at volume seven of these Christmas reads I have been compiling this last ten days. Seven is reputedly the luckiest number, and so I sincerely hope that this marks the beginning of a luckier, more fortunate chapter for all of our writers, our families and our friends during these difficult days. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Rui Carneiro

Debesh Choudhury

Dr. Deborah M. Vereen

Michael Patanella

Breanna Lowman

Darren Richardson

Denise G

Kit L.

Markus Scorelius

Joseph M. Learned

Kevin

Liam Ireland

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