The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

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"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

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"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

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