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Article: The columnist who stole Christmas.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- December 24, 2001
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DETROIT _ `Twas Christmas Day and all through the city,
The discouraged and disconsolate wallowed in self-pity.
The calendar grew gray as well as their spirits.
A sporting year somberly grim would beget another season hopelessly dim.
The thirst for holiday cheer brought them all together.
Convened at their popular watering hole in the hope of breaking the gloomy weather.
A dark cloud had pitched itself overhead and refused to leave,