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happy holidays you know my favorite

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thing about the holiday season is that

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it's a time when the world slows down

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and we all get a chance to think about

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and appreciate and reflect on what's

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really important which is the people

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that we love and spending time together

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however you're celebrating this holiday

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this year may it be one full of joy you

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know when i think about missing my

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family on the ground i know that they're

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visiting family and spending time with

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family and we're going to get to do much

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the same thing and i'm going to bring

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some of my own family traditions with us

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on board the international space station

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on christmas eve we turn out all the

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lights in the house and we just have

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candlelight now we can't have candles

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and candle light on the international

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space station but we can turn the lights

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down low and we can watch christmas

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movies and so we're going to do

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something like that and we'll enjoy our

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christmas eve together and welcome in

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christmas day the next morning

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this time of the year means for most

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people spending time with their family

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and friends we have special friends

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aboard our crew and we're very happy to

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be together but of course we don't get

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to spend it with our families at the

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same time our thoughts go to all those

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who are deployed to dangers in critical

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areas and are doing service and they

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also cannot spend their time with their

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family and friends we are thinking about

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you

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during our time up here in orbit

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as a child growing up i was fortunate

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enough to celebrate two different

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holidays all through the holiday season

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both christmas and hanukkah so whatever

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it is that you're celebrating this

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holiday season we hope that you find

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peace and love and enjoy spending time

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with all those around you that are

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important

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we'll be celebrating up here as well

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the stockings were floated by the

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chimney with care

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now what are we going to stuff in these

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stockings i think we might need some

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goodies and treats

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well thanksgiving we just had turkey so

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for this holiday we have special smoked

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salmon

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we had to come all the way to space to

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try to get away from fruitcake but it

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didn't work we got some anyway

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we have hot apple cider and hot cocoa

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