Reader stories: The first time you didn’t go home for the holidays

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THINK I was living in California and my family was in Wisconsin and couldn't afford to go home for Christmas so I went camping in Death Valley. A roadrunner visited me in my campsite. I opened presents from my family on Christmas morning.

THINK Fuck Christmas

THINK When you finally grow up and get your own home.

THINK Deployed.

THINK I'm just exploring the options available to me. I don't know who has my best interest at heart, and, as a red-head, the paranoia of being targeted as 'food' for sects of spiritualists has been conditioned so deeply into my subconscious that it is difficult for me to decide.

THINK HappyHolidays

THINK I used to LEAVE home for the holidays. I had one of THOSE families.

THINK How can people deny their children Christmas with family because of lifestyle or poverty, and then claim to be Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus? Horrible!

THINK Heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking responses. Merry Christmas all!

THINK Joyeux Noël

THINK The star is somewhat interchangeable with an angel. If this is the family tree, this would be the safest place for the family jewels. Does the guardian 'angel' represent the patriarch?

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