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Letters From the Home Front
By Kris Berg, Monday, December 28, 2009.
Flickr image by fazen.Our family has it backwards. Every year, about the time the mall queues its first seasonal song track (August) -- the one about the being home for the holidays -- we start plotting our exit strategy.
And by early December, when normal people (normal people being defined as "people who don't consider lockboxes fashion accessories") are in Code Red socializing readiness, we are holding a family meeting in which we map the emergency exits and review the evacuation checklist.
It's not that there isn't a certain appeal to living the dream of the sparkling beverage commercial -- the one where the 257 handsome friends meet in the lucky hostess's living room to share the love, laughter and cheese spread.
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