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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.
Colin Fleming
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Dec. 23 2018
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