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A Life-Enhancing Lesson from Dickens’s Christmas Carol

By Jon Hersey

Dec 24, 2018
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“There’ll be scary ghost stories

And tales of the glories of

Christmases long, long ago” —Andy Williams

One-hundred seventy-five years after its publication, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens remains a staple of the Christmas season. When I saw it as a stage play in my teens, I remember being particularly inspired to find the perfect gifts for friends a…

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