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Do you Holiday (card)?

Do you Holiday (card)?

Plus, regrets from an Xmas in Afghanistan

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Neil Shea
Dec 23, 2021
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Forty-some years ago my parents made this Christmas card—hand-drawn, hand-lettered, silk-screened and printed—with borrowed supplies from the small circuit board factory where they both worked. It was their first and only foray into holiday mail, and while I’m totally biased I think they did pretty well.

I remember this card every winter, along with the…

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