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everyone's coming home for the holidays, just to turn around and leave again. what does this mean? should i get my hopes up? what do the holidays really mean then? an excuse to make short appearences in poeples' lives and then dink out to wherever else....

i suppose i only notice this phenomenae because i'm not going anywhere for the holidays and after they pass, i'll still be here.

i'm secretly planning to escape this pattern and exist somewhere else for the next 50 years. see if you can guess where, and you get a golden star.

(boof*)

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