It's Christmas Eve, babe

And because I post this every year, here's Anne Lamott's Advent Adventure:

 So I called my Jesuit friend, Tom, who is a hopeless alcoholic of the worst sort, sober now for 22 years, someone who sometimes gets fat and wants to hang himself, so I trust him. I said, "Tell me a story about Advent. Tell meabout people getting well."

He thought for a while. Then he said, "OK." …

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