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... Now you're ready for the actual shopping. Your goal should
be to get it over with as quickly as possible, because the
longer you stay in the mall, the longer your children will have
to listen to holiday songs on the mall public-address system,
and many of these songs can damage children emotionally. For
example: "Frosty the Snowman" is about a snowman who befriends
some children, plays with them until they learn to love him,
then melts. And "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is about a
young reindeer who, because of a physical deformity, is treated
as an outcast by the other reindeer. Then along comes good, old
Santa. Does he ignore the deformity? Does he look past
Rudolph's nose and respect Rudolph for the sensitive reindeer he
is underneath? No. Santa asks Rudolph to guide his sleigh, as
if Rudolph were nothing more than some kind of headlight with
legs and a tail. So unless you want your children exposed to
this kind of insensitivity, you should shop quickly.
-- Dave Barry,
from Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide
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