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White Elephant

Family can be a pain in the ass. It's not that you don’t love them, but at this time of year, pretty much every problem can be traced right back to family. Most people tend to be done with the family get-togethers by January first, but due to some last minute issues, your family decided to push back your Christmas celebration a little bit to tonight. Are you excited? That is hard to say. Everyone loves getting presents, but tomorrow is going to be a busy mess that might overshadow the joy of gift giving. Not only that, but you’ve all forgone the traditional gift giving process in favor of a whole family white elephant exchange. You’ve spent the last few days laboring over what to get, as it needs to be something that anyone could use! Eventually you settled on a rather fancy box of chocolates to please everyone. The day is finally here and you’ve been having family time for the past few hours. Dinner came and went with some good conversation mixed in with some not so good and some