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“What did your family do — or not do — at Christmas, Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, or whichever holiday loomed largest?”

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The food, who turned up, the bit you most looked forward to or dreaded.

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Does your version of that day now keep faith with the childhood one, or break with it?

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