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Home for the Holidays: Putting the “oy” in “joy”

Hinda Mandell | December 28, 2009

Home for the holidays.
A phrase so simple, so idyllic and so normal.
A phrase that so completely manages to bypass the family neurosis that comes with it.
A quick Google News search of “family stress” reveals 9,769 hits. (As a point of comparison, fruitcake nets a mere 1,155 and eggnog scores 3,144.)
Newsday’s article on coping with family [...]