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Sunday, December 9, 1990

My ears were alert for the first Christmas song of the season. It's a little game I play with myself each year, guessing which one it will be and where I will be at the time. This year it was "Oh Come All Ye Faithful," known in Latin as "Adeste Fideles." I was coming down the stairs with an armful of angels, shepherds, Wise Men, and sheep when the age-old song came to me by way of Magnovox.

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