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The Glow of the Office Screen on Christmas Morning

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The turkey had been in since six, and by nine the whole house smelled like sage and warm butter. I had flour to my elbows and a list in my head a mile long. Through the kitchen window the yard was white and still, the kind of perfect Christmas morning you only get a handful of times in a marriage. Our daughters were sprawled in the living room in their new pajamas, picking through chocolate coins. It felt, for about an hour, like nothing in the world was wrong.

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