Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

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"Well,first we go to church, then we come home on Christmas Eve and then we open our presents.

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After Christmas, black families in the United States might also celebrate Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits" in Swahili.

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Jackson says in the first few days of the Olympics his business has sold almost three times the merchandise as at Christmas.

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