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The world is divided into two types of people: Those who prefer real Christmas trees, and Muppets.
You guessed it: I’m a realer. Always have been, always will be. I love the aroma, the joy of finding the perfect pine, the dropped needles, the beautiful irregular symmetry of nature, impossible to synthesise. I disdain artifice.
Get a tree or don’t get a tree. But don’t invite some pale, bogus imitation into your home.
My family knows this of me and it has not been questioned. Until this year.
I laughed when Megan first suggested a pretend pine. It was October. I figured she just wanted to start Christmas ridiculously early and was using her normal tactic of suggesting an artificial tree, knowing I would instinctively insist on a real tree, which we would then acquire.
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