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going to bed tonight thinking about christmas eves at my gramma's when i was a kid. my cousins would come round and we'd spend the whole day there. my grandma and aunts always cooked up a giant meal with foods that were mysteriously guaranteed to bring us all prosperity, health, and long life. the noisy clatter of my aunts and uncles playing mahjong made it hard to hear one another, so after a while the kids would retreat upstairs to play board games and teach each other dirty words.
on those nights i drifted off to sleep on their old plush couch, staring up at an enormous embroidered tapestry of a peacock on the wall. goodnight, big pink peacock. goodnight, long-gone gramma, goodnight, everyone.
going to bed tonight thinking about christmas eves at my gramma's when i was a kid. my cousins would come round and we'd spend the whole day there. my grandma and aunts always cooked up a giant meal with foods that were mysteriously guaranteed to bring us all prosperity, health, and long life. the noisy clatter of my aunts and uncles playing mahjong made it hard to hear one another, so after a while the kids would retreat upstairs to play board games and teach each other dirty words.
on those nights i drifted off to sleep on their old plush couch, staring up at an enormous embroidered tapestry of a peacock on the wall. goodnight, big pink peacock. goodnight, long-gone gramma, goodnight, everyone.
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