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t may seem like El Niño and the
Heat Miser are in cahoots to pre-
JL vent the holidays, but what does
weather have to do with holiday
cheer? We’ll likely get buckets more
rain before the first snowfall. So let it rain, let it
rain, let it rain.
In the meantime, we’ll go to festive parties.
We’ll bake obscene cookies. And we’ll go shop
ping!
Gift-giving for the winter holidays, whether it
be Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Solstice or
the New Year, is so much more involved than for
any other annual occasion. Anniversaries, birth
days and Valentine's Day can’t hold a candle—
they can all squeak by as one-gift affairs.
With luck, you've planned reasonably and
know you won't be able to save a cent of that
Xmas bonus. You're prepared for a coworker to
propose "secret Santas." And you know that no
matter how emphatically you and your spouse
have decided on low-key gifts this year, you'd
damn well better have your bases covered— just
in case a little something extra shows up under
the tree with your name on it.
Here are a dozen suggestions (and reason to
wonder who on earth could handle 12 days of
Christmas).
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including our excellent
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Featuring
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me:
twelve cakes so creamy,
eleven waxy candles,
ten N ew Age crystals,
nine virile vitamins,
eight gal-made tables,
seven shiny C D s,
(six o f them D iFranco),
five dirty books,
four teasing toys,
three Goosey glasses,
two tandem trikes
and her posing in a portrait.
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why not give the gift of smut this year? At
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□ vintage photos and magazines from the
50s and 60s ($9.00 to $60.00)
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