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How Christmas Worked

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Christmas in the 4th Century AD

Christmas was rife with sexuality. And one could even say perversion early on. The druids were big into it too apparently, the Celts. In Rome they celebrated the pretty rockets festival called the Saturnalia from December 17th to 24th. They feasted and gambled and gave gifts and corrals and got drunk. Wasted for days. No one part of you like they did.

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