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...Religion centers me. It makes me prioritize my life. I know there is something out there, and we feel humbled...
Christmas comes but once a year, and as we all know, it is a very long day. Especially when someone who shall remain my sister doesn't let a little thing like adulthood stop her from shrieking over the contents of her fluffy red stocking at the crack of dawn. And then imagine, if you will, a holiday sans liquor; I don't have to since my parents don't drink. So, 6:30 a.m. wakeup + ginger ale = 4 p.m. matricide...
...know we're supposed to think that the entertainment industry promotes violence in children, but it has been my experience that Hollywood saves my mother's life year after year. My family's favorite Christmas tradition is not the turkey or the presents but going to the movies. There aren't any rules about what we'll see, though I think the heartwarming decision in 1987 to go to Throw Momma from the Train (speaking of matricide) has certainly influenced our choices in years since. Familial resentment should be the subtext of a holiday, not the text. Avoid any story...
...full-fledged midlife crisis. With his first dream dashed, he could reach for a second act more suited to his brainy, scientific gifts. More likely the second act he hopes for is a second chance. But even though he won the popular vote and, for all we'll ever know, the electoral one, his own party is complaining that had he won bigger, he wouldn't have needed to be worried over a few thousand uncounted ballots. Democrats don't like their losers, even good ones...
...bonding that takes place among Harry, Ron and Hermione is because each of them is disadvantaged in some way. Hermione is deeply insecure under her know-it-all manner, and the way to underline that aspect of her is to make her come, like Harry, from a different world [her parents are both Muggles, i.e., nonwizards], so that this is scary to her, and she copes with it the only way she knows how to cope, which is to overachieve...