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<\/p>\nThe Winter Solstice is here again. Oh, I hear something…<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> It’s time for the sun to return!<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Yeah, yeah, yeah…<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Hey, what are you doing here?<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> I’m on the other side of the world. We occur at the same time, you know.<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> I know that. Anyway, why aren’t you celebrating? You have lots of sun.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> And I have to see it go away. For that, nobody gives a damn. With you, they celebrate the sun returning, but by the time I come around, their brightest day of the year, no one cares. No summer Christmas for me.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> Did someone say my name?<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Summer Solstice is feeling glum and without a holiday.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> What! Nonsense. You’ve got me. You’re today in the southern hemisphere, are you not?<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Yeah. But having you is just sort of a happy accident.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> And the key word there is “happy”. So don’t be sad.<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Now just a minute, Christmas. You’re specifically for me. Everything you’re made of comes out of Winter Solstice celebrations.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> And I think I’m fine with the southern hemisphere calling me a summer holiday just as they call me a winter one for you. Got a problem with that?<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Yes! Because you’re specifically a winter holiday.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> I’m a lot of things. If I want to call myself also a celebration of the days being their longest and brightest, I’ll do that.<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> But it doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> Hey, does applying importance to axial tilt as if it means anything beyond that make any sense? Don’t pull at that thread.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Axial tilt? Yeah, that’s ours. But, Christmas, I thought Jesus was the reason for your season. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> That, too.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> So you already go beyond us solstices. What’s the matter here?<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> I don’t know. I thought you were the one unhappy.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Winter gets all the celebration for the return of the sun, but I have the sun as returned and full as it’s going to get. And I get little celebration. I don’t get it.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> That doesn’t reflect upon you. Hey, how do you think I’d feel if I worried too much about what my celebrators do supposedly for me? Especially that mind-numbing “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” war. These people simply don’t make sense.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Is that supposed to make me feel better?<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> Maybe? Or, perhaps, people are too busy lounging around in the bright sunny long days they don’t need to put on a special celebration? Perhaps a more subtle, more muted appreciated.<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> Hmmm. Could be.<\/p>\n
Christmas:<\/b> There you go! You don’t need to be the cheap crap that Winter Solstice and I are.<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Hey! What’s that supposed to mean?<\/p>\n
Summer Solstice:<\/b> It means enjoy your hypothermia, losers!<\/p>\n
Winter Solstice:<\/b> Oy.<\/p>\n
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