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Meet the Original Ebenezer Scrooge

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Long before he wrote ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Charles Dickens indulged his fondness for ghost stories by conjuring spirits who tormented a grumbling, drunken gravedigger.

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