Digital Tradition Mirror

Simple Gifts (3)

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Simple Gifts (3)

'Tis a gift to be simple, but it don't cost enough,
So you buy that complex plastic sort of stuff,
And then on Christmas morning all the kids come down in flocks,
And they throw away the toys and play with the box!


- Author unknown
              heard at a concert at the 100 Flowers feminist bookstore
              in Central Square, Cambridge, Mass., circa 1974

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