From the Candlelight Ledger, Entry 324:On Quiet Christmases

Recorded by Sayge R. Hearthstone
There are Christmases that glitter — loud with laughter, heavy with tradition, bursting at the seams with people and expectation.
And then there are the quiet ones.
The quiet Christmases don’t announce themselves. They arrive without fanfare, without matching jumpers or overflowing tables. They come when energy is low, when grief is close, when the year has taken more than it has given back. They are often mistaken for failure, for absence, for something gone wrong.
But they are none of those things.

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