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X usually make a tig wisk lisi every year, bu+
+kis Ckris+mas, all X really wan+ is +kis video game called Twis+ed Vliiard
X>nigk+ Manny was going +krougk +ke Ckris+mas ca+alog, picking ou+ all +ke s+uff ke wan+s wi+k a tig red marker. Manny was circling every single +oy in -tke ca+alog. He was even circling really expensive +kings like a gan+ mo+orired car and s+uff like +ka+.
So X decided +o step ih and give Kim sorte good big-brotKerly advice.
X +old Kin tKat
if
Ke circled stuff tKat was +oo expehsiVe, Ke was going to ehd up witK a buhcK of clotKes
for
CKristmas. X said Ke sKould just pick +Kree or
four
nediun-priced gifts so Ke would ehd up witK a couple
of tKihgS Ke actually wanted
But
of
course Mahhy just weht back to circlihg everytKihg agaih. So X guess Ke’ll just K«Ve to learh tKe K«rd way.
VJKeh X was seveh, tKe only tKihg X really wahted -for CKristnas was a Barbie Prean House. Ahd NOT because X like girls* toys, like Rodrick said.
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X just thought ii would be a really awesome fori for my toy soldiers.
Vihen Mom and Pad saw ry wish lisi that year, they got in a big fight over ii. Pad said there was no way he was getting me a dollhouse, bui Mom said ii was healthy for me io "experiment" with whatever kind of toys X wanted io play with.
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Believe ii or hoi, Pad actually won that argument. Pad told me io start ry wish list over and pick some ioys that were more "appropriate" for boys.
Bui X have a secret weapon when it comes io Christmas. My Uncle Charlie always gets me whatever X want. X told him X wanted the Barbie Pream House, and he said hed hook
me up.
Oh Christmas, when Uhcle Charlie gave me my gift, i+ was NOT what X asked for. He must’ve walked ihto the toy s+ore ahd picked up the first thihg he saw that had the word Barkie * oh i+.
Pad washt real happy wheh he saw wha-t Uhcle Charlie got me. He told me +o either throw it out or give it away to charity.
But X kept it ahyway. Arid OK, X admit mayke X took it out ahd played with it ohce or twice.
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"That's how X ehded op ih the emer^ehy room two weeks later with a pihk Barbie shoe stock op ry hose. Ahd believe me, Rodrick has hever let me hear the ehd
of
THAT.
the Givihg Tree at church* Ihe Givih^ Tree is basically a Secret Sahta kihd
of
thih^ where
you ^et a 31ft
for
someohe who is heedy
Mom picked oot a red wool sweater for oor GiVihg Tree
ayy.
T tried to talk Mom ihto gettihg somethihg a lot cooler, like a TV or a sloshie machihe or something like that.
Because imagine i•f all you got on CHristmas was a wool sweater.
I'm Sure our Giving Tree guy will tHrow His sweater in tHe trasH, alorg witH tHe -ten cans
of
yams we sent His way during tHe IHanks^tong Food Prive.
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VlHen X woke uj> tHis morning and went downstairs, tHere were about a million grfts under tHe CHristmas -tree. But wHen X started digging around, tHere were Hardly any giFts witH
ry
name on tHem.
Bot Manny made oot like a bandit. He got EVERY single thing he circled in the catalog, ho lie. So I’ll bet hes glad he didn't listen to me.
X did find a cookie things wi+h my name on them, fcu+ they were mostly books and socks and s+off like that.
X opened my gifts in the comer behind the couch, because X don't like opening gifts near Pad. Whenever someone opens a gift, Pad swoops ngh+ in and cleans op after them.
X gave Manly a toy Kekop+er an it. "TKe took Ke go+ me was Best of L il Cu+ie.’ "L'il Cu+ie" is +Ke worst comic in +Ke newspaper, and Rodrick knows Kow mucK X Ka+e it. X tKink +Kis is +Ke four+K year in a row X’ve gotten a "L'il Cu+ie" took from Kim.
X gave Mom and Pad +Keir gifts. X get +Kem +Ke same kind of tKing every year, tu+ parents ea+ +Ka+ stuff uj>.
"The rest of the relatives s+dr+ed showing op aroond It'00, and Uncle Charlie came at noon.
Uncle Charlie brought a big
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley