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Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today.
Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today.
Approximate author period: c. 2011 AD · contemporary
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- Thomm Quackenbush
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Approximate historical context for attribution to Thomm Quackenbush, based on documented writing activity in 2011. Original author bibliography lists We Shadows, Double Dragon Publishing, 2011. The separate contract date is not used as a publication date. Source: Biography and Bibliography — Thomm Quackenbush, https://thommquackenbush.com/about.php (checked 2026-10-09). This does not establish the composition date or authenticate the attribution of these words. Source: https://thommquackenbush.com/about.php (accessed 2026-10-09).
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