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christmas means to me

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memories of wonderful moments in my

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childhood

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memories of families getting together i

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always look forward to this time of year

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because even when i was away at the

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naval academy that was always a time

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that i got to come home to see my family

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it's the time of the year when we unite

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with friends and families a lot of good

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food

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only available for christmas there's

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obviously a pretty large spiritual

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aspect of christmas but whether you

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celebrate christmas or any of the

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holidays this time of year i think the

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important thing like everyone's

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mentioned is reconnecting

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even though we'll be up here this year

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we have our space family so i think

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we're going to create some of our own

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traditions and we'll be able to talk to

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our family on the ground

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there's a new family here in space and

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so getting to spend christmas as a

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family with this family is something i'm

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looking forward to it's a special

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christmas like being in space being with

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friends um doing a special job

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actually we could celebrate christmas

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like i don't know like 24 divided by 90

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when i get to go home to my mom's i

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always way over eat the

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once a year chocolate double chocolate

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cookies that she makes

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so i i will miss those up here the epic

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search for the christmas pickle because

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the person who finds the christmas

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pickle on the tree gets to open the

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present and then divvy out the presents

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after that on christmas eve

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it's we have a very nice dinner a

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special meal it's every year the same on

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christmas eve but it's only for

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christmas and we open all the presents

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the same evening don't think anyone

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would be able to wait till the next

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morning i like the the very long

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very large christmas breakfast that we

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have i think my favorite christmas

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tradition is how my family decorates the

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christmas tree we would have basically a

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picnic for dinner and we'll just spend a

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couple hours decorating the tree

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competing for the best section to

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highlight their their ornaments that we

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would get every year

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privileged to have the perspective of

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seeing so many countries

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we can go from one side to the other in

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just a few minutes it truly gives us a

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feeling of unification for all human

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beings around the world we get to see

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the sunrise

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many times a day so thinking about the

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fact that people are waking up to a new

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year each time we see that sunrise is

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pretty cool

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then looking forward to the next year or

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the science that we want to run here or

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the experiments that will be a splendid

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start into the new year

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i'd like to let my family know that no

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matter where i am no matter how far away

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i am from all of you that my heart is

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always with you i think i'll make sure

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that i give my family a call let them

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know how much i'm thinking about them

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how much i love them and how much i

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can't wait to see them when i get home

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and i would tell my wife daughter

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brothers and sisters how

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happy i am

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to be able to talk to them to be able to

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communicate with them

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and of course how much i miss them i

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love you guys i miss you and

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i'm glad glad to be spending it here but

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and i'm glad to know i'll be able to

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merry christmas merry christmas happy

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holidays happy new year from all of