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    Taste of The Past The Holidays

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    The document describes holiday traditions and memories from the author's past. It discusses how the home would be decorated with lights and ornaments for festivities. Family members would sing Christmas carols and busy themselves in the kitchen preparing foods like roast chicken, ham, and lechon. The author fondly recalls gathering together at midnight to eat the meal while sharing stories and exchanging gifts, feeling warmth and holiday spirit. However, the passage notes that as time went on, the family grew apart and the author now longs to celebrate the holidays together again as they did in the past.

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    Taste of The Past The Holidays

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    The document describes holiday traditions and memories from the author's past. It discusses how the home would be decorated with lights and ornaments for festivities. Family members would sing Christmas carols and busy themselves in the kitchen preparing foods like roast chicken, ham, and lechon. The author fondly recalls gathering together at midnight to eat the meal while sharing stories and exchanging gifts, feeling warmth and holiday spirit. However, the passage notes that as time went on, the family grew apart and the author now longs to celebrate the holidays together again as they did in the past.

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    The document describes holiday traditions and memories from the author's past. It discusses how the home would be decorated with lights and ornaments for festivities. Family members would sing Christmas carols and busy themselves in the kitchen preparing foods like roast chicken, ham, and lechon. The author fondly recalls gathering together at midnight to eat the meal while sharing stories and exchanging gifts, feeling warmth and holiday spirit. However, the passage notes that as time went on, the family grew apart and the author now longs to celebrate the holidays together again as they did in the past.

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    Taste of The Past The Holidays

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    Jacinthe Angelou D. Peñalosa
    The document describes holiday traditions and memories from the author's past. It discusses how the home would be decorated with lights and ornaments for festivities. Family members would sing Christmas carols and busy themselves in the kitchen preparing foods like roast chicken, ham, and lechon. The author fondly recalls gathering together at midnight to eat the meal while sharing stories and exchanging gifts, feeling warmth and holiday spirit. However, the passage notes that as time went on, the family grew apart and the author now longs to celebrate the holidays together again as they did in the past.

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    Taste of the Past:

    the Holidays
    BY: JACINTHE PEÑALOSA

    As I entered the comfort of my home after attending the simbang gabi with glee, it was
    a sight to behold. Everything is surrounded by white lights, illuminating like the stars at
    night. Every ornament, like my red nose during allergies, is on display to match the home
    with the festivity. As I wandered around, my loved ones were bustling and on cloud nine as
    they awaited midnight. My father and titos hurled into the living room and sang the jubilant
    Christmas carols and songs at blast to fill the atmosphere with the spirit of the holidays. My
    mother and titas were as busy as a bee in the kitchen as they cooked the jewels for the table
    like roast chicken, ham oozing with pineapple glaze, sweet spaghetti, the savory lumpia, and
    never to be forgotten— the lechon. The room was filled with the aromatic smells from these
    delicacies, making everyone eager to chew and as hungry as a bull.

    As midnight came, the long wait was over. Everyone was over the moon as they sat
    around the table. We were smiling, laughing, telling jokes, narrating stories, reminiscing the
    nostalgia about Christmas past while devouring the jewels my mom and titas prepared.
    Afterward, we exchanged gifts with our mañanita or mañanito and played games with cash
    as an award that made me a lion. My eyes were fireflies as the evening was filled with
    warmth and yuletide.

    As days, months and years passed by, so did the time spent during the holidays. We
    grew apart as a space grew to form a vast and yawning divide. I long for the festive season,
    where we can come together and celebrate our family. A moment we gather and forget
    about the world for a day or two where life seemingly slows down. Those little instances
    most mattered for I never would have thought it would slip away like Santa’s sleigh flying
    into the horizon, losing sight with each floating gallop.

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