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A writer friend of mine did a podcast a couple years ago where he challenged his writer-subscribers to create a Christmas poem to someone - but not just any sort of sweet Holiday drivel, but a poem that cut-to-the-bone and made you bleed. This is not an easy assignment. I suspect we all have Holiday memories of moments that were so painful just thinking of them makes the heart spasm and the eyes well up. So who would my poem target? Who would I write to if I could? I would wr

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