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    One caroler offers you a candy cane and you hesitate to take it.

    “I have nothing to give you,” you inform the young woman. Receiving requires something like in kind, this you know. Nothing is free; a cost lies behind every extended hand or smile or place to belong.

    “You don’t need to,” she beams. Snowflakes gather around her, glittering in her wool cap. “It’s Christmas.”

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