Christmas Tormenting
Oh those 1980's Christmas memories. You know? Visiting the family you rarely see like cousins, uncles, and aunts who put you on the spot with Christmas greetings. That awful uncomfortable feeling, you just want to run. Let's fast-forward a few decades, and those awful Christmas experiences were with my late wife's extended family - via her step dad. They'd come over once a year and Theresa's mother, Marion, would spend a lot of money on food for these awful people. The only visit less uncomfortable than being in a morgue. To Theresa's mothers credit, she would not skimp on quality and bought quality food from Sobey's back in the day. We'd help with the decorations, food layout, and of course, the clean-up. The comparison to the 1980's and 2000's Christmas was pretty well the same: People you haven't seen in a about a year come over. There's this uncomfortable silence as I search for topics to talk about. We settle on work and I mig...
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