Make Your Own Holiday Tradition

O Come, All Ye Free Spirits

By Paul Rudnick
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the December 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Feel as if none of the standard holidays suits you? Paul Rudnick discovers that there's something to be said for inventing your own.

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