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Article: In Vitro Veritas.(humorous commentary on having a mid-life child)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1999
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MANY early Americans disliked Christmas. Boston banned it as popish. It was left to New York to discover that the way around these prejudices was not conversion, but secularism, rebuilding the holiday on family and Gemutlichkeit: Washington Irving created Santa Claus out of Dutch tradition and tongue-in-cheek, Clement Moore gave him eight tiny reindeer, and we were on the way to Pokemon stocking stuffers. Whether the season is about children or a Birth, it is appropriate while it passes to think sympathetically of women trying to have children, none harder than those in New York.
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