What is one of your funniest holiday moments?

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The year Mom eagerly opened her “main” gift from Dad. Eager with anticipation, you should have seen her face when she opened it: a shower head. Dad was a classic giver of “man gifts” – gifts that ostensibly are for the spouse but are really for him – but this one went too far. I think it’s become funnier in retrospect. At the time I was maybe 13 and didn’t really understand the dynamic between husbands and wives (not that I’m a whole lot wiser now – :-P)

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