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What Christmas Is as We Grow Older

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Bellona Times
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Originally published in the 1851 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, "What Christmas Is as We Grow Older" is an essay suggesting that Christmas should be a time of gratitude and forgiveness.
Public Domain (P)2017 Paperless
Classics Social Sciences World Celebration Christmas Winter
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Terrible narration.

Dreadfully narrated. Sounded like a robot, random pauses between words as if all punctuation was missing from script.

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