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Puritan Christmas
Thursday December 01st 2005, 3:14 am
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From the Town of Arlington‘s mailing list:  

our Protestant Puritan Forefathers explicitly forbade any celebration of the Christmas Holiday as it was an invitation to debauchery and prideful behavior.

What foresight…  I love that list, and this town.

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