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Single bells

Christmas is a time for families. Yet families can come with complications – if they come at all. Children have to go to their in-laws, or prefer to celebrate their new babies in their own little nuclear families. Fused families often don't fuse because they have different traditions and resent the loss of their own. In-laws might not get on.

But Christmas is most difficult for single people. As you grow older, you find yourself wondering whether it really was the right

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