Unpacking Great-Aunt Gertrude’s plum pudding
Dec 16, 2020
3 minutes
In your standard Christmas story, there is a family fruitcake that makes the rounds every year and doubles as a doorstop until it is mailed to the next victim. The tradition is easy enough to maintain, since it doesn’t involve any real work, other than annual retrieval and a trip to the post office. Certainly nobody is expected to eat it.
Our family bucked the tradition. We ate it. But then again,
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