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[quote=Anonymous]Why do you hate holidays? You have creative liberty here. What don't you like about the things you currently do?

It's the spirit that counts, OP.

We are foreigners, and our families are abroad. We've spent many a holiday just the 4 of us.

We don't like turkey, but I LOVE Thanksgiving. Our country doesn't have this celebration. We celebrate it every year, either at friends' houses with the traditional fare, or just our nuclear family, with duck, wild rice an veggies and definitely not turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes or pumpkin pie!

We celebrate Christmas and our favorite tradition is a new one we picked up in this country: cutting our own tree. There are no Christmas tree farms where we're from, even though it's a very Catholic country and the climate would allow it. So we love to drive into the country, pick a likely-looking plump fir, and bring it home, without trimming it. It looks like a ball of pine needles, and we think that's funny. We eat Beef Wellington, listen to carols and eat all sorts of (traditional this time) yummy holiday fare.

You only have one life and you need to enjoy it!!!

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