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The Goose of Christmas Past

From the vault, and in honor of our dear friend Danny Pring, who passed this year.

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I’VE BEEN A HAUNTED MAN for 13 years, and I place the blame squarely on Tiny Tim’s crooked little shoulders. It was December 1990, and I had just finished rereading A Christmas Carol.

Inspired by Tiny’s exultant prayer, “God bless us everyone,” I decided that I, too, would have a proper Christmas dinner. The next day, I marched into my local butcher shop…

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