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Goodbye Tree, Goodbye Lights, Goodbye Christmas—Until Next Year

COMEDOWN

It’s Jan. 3. Your Christmas tree may be coming down, it’s back to work for many, and a farewell to that strange and necessary time of year of joy, pleasure, and magic.

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Alamy

Must it end like this? Me and my super wrestling my Christmas tree, my beautiful Christmas tree, into a large plastic condom, ready for disposal? “It won’t fit,” he says, as the lower branches struggle free of their imminent tomb.

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