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We didn__ see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn__ a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon _ though I couldn__ tell you what about. And there was definitely something in the air _ call it magic if you like _ because that was the happiest Christmas any of us could remember, which makes me think that perhaps, like luck, magic is something we can make for ourselves. It isn__ something you can buy. It doesn__ come as standard. And you don__ need to plan, or to overspend, or to wrack your brains trying to come up with some extraordinary way to celebrate. Because sometimes it__ the little things that bring us the greatest pleasure.
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We didn__ see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn__ a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon _ though I couldn__ tell you what about. And there was definitely something in the air _ call it magic if you like _ because that was the happiest Christmas any of us could remember, which makes me think that perhaps, like luck, magic is something we can make for ourselves. It isn__ something you can buy. It doesn__ come as standard. And you don__ need to plan, or to overspend, or to wrack your brains trying to come up with some extraordinary way to celebrate. Because sometimes it__ the little things that bring us the greatest pleasure.

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