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A Mark Twain Christmas Story
For those looking for a bellyful of laughs, two humorous pieces in the yuletide spirit. Mark Twain writes a letter as Santa and Roy Blount Jr. comes up with some new ways of describing the holiday.
The Daily Beast
Published
Dec. 24 2009
2:59PM EST
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