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(82,333 posts) Sun Dec 7, 2014, 01:31 PM Dec 2014

How Christmas Creep Hurts Interfaith Families

Posted: 12/05/2014 1:01 pm EST Updated: 12/05/2014 1:59 pm EST

=Lea Grover

Last month, my children cheered when they saw a Christmas tree in Costco, and I ignored it, stony faced.

"Is Christmas soon?" they asked, eagerly.

"No, first comes Thanksgiving. And then Channukah. And there are other holidays before Christmas, too," I said.

"So why are there Christmas trees?"

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