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Article: An uncomfortably familiar feeling
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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BY THE time you read this, the first day of 1995 will be upon
us, and whatever disastrous entertainments we have had to endure in
the name of "bringing in the New Year" will be blessedly over.
Although I wanted to spend New Year's Eve lounging in bed, wearing
the new, grey silk robe that I got for Christmas and eating
bon-bons, I won't have done. Everyone knows New Year's Eves are
horrible - but like German marzipan, or trips to the circus, or
ploughman's lunches, we feel New Year's Eves ought to be wonderful,
so we keep letting hope triumph over experience and giving them
another vain try.
This New Year's will have been spent with my friend Claudia. If
the evening has gone to plan, we will ...