Once upon a time, Christmas was just another day, and so were Valentine?s Day, Easter, Mother?s Day and Father?s Day. In celebrating these days now, and the more personal ones ? the birthdays of Lois and their two children, their wedding anniversary, the day the family adopted a three-legged King Charles spaniel ? Feng Chen found satisfaction in buying and giving: cards, flowers, cakes, chocolate, presents, dinners. These things, he knew, did not bring happiness, but like other everyday necessities, they provided a solid base for normalcy, without which his family, he suspected, would look askance at him, asking who he was, and why he was there.
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