... Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue, I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight -- Marilyn Monroe Only a few days before Christmas. The air in San Antonio smells a little sweeter in the last couple of days. Christmas time conjures a familiar spirit inside me, although sometimes it is desecrated by the over-commercialization of desperate American industries, trying to recuperate from the current recession. This is what people would refer to as 'the most wonderful time of the year' - all of the five senses are brutally attacked by the repeats of Christmas carols played by the shopping malls (oh, I'm sorry, in the US, you ought to call them 'holiday carols', to be politically correct!), smell of freshly cut (or, humanely killed for the season)
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