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Of Superstitions and Resolutions
It was supposed to be a very American New Year’s eve, a night out with friends, ringing in 2011 in a cloud of noise and alcohol, amidst packs of kids dashing across numerous rooms, clinking champagne glasses in the midst of crazy dancing and screaming. Instead, our daughter got sick, last-minute — recurrent strep throat — and we ended…
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How to celebrate the New Year, Russian-style
Since Soviet Russia wasn’t allowed to officially celebrate Christmas, we had to have some other major holiday. And it had to be big. Huge. BETTER than Christmas. Thus was born the Soviet New Year, honestly THE BEST holiday EVER. Think Halloween with its costumes and candy. Add to it Christmas with its dressed-up evergreens and…
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