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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 12:33:05 -0600
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: An observation
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- On Sat, 26 Dec 1992, Judith E. Schrier wrote:
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- > But there are people who feel that Epiphany is the right day to
- > take down the tree (Anne next door, f'rinstance). They don't put
- > them up until Xmas eve.
-
- I've always had the impression that was more of a Yankee thing. Like
- Natalie, I have always known that to leave the tree up after Jan 1 is to
- tempt fate. Besides, you have to make time for all those black-eyed peas
- that we have to eat on the 1st. ;-)
-
- -abh
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