Christmas with Charles Dickens
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What Christmas Is as We Grow Older?
In 1851 we get a different essay the following year and it's called What Christmas Is as we grow older. It's about grief and bereavement. Dickens did experience a lot of trauma in his life. In 1859, Charles Dickens, having separated, gets a very fun Christmas gift from the actor Charles Fector. Any guesses what it was? Blue pieces for Build your own pigling suckling toy. And this is kind of spurred by having a bracelet sent to her that was meant for Ellen. Oh, that's the plot of Love ActuallyIs a Christmas. It's a Christmas Dickens story. But we're a comedy show and it's Christmas, so let's pass that and
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