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Grab bag
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After vaccination you should still wear this

A mask (because you could still be a ‘silent spreader’)

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This famous poem begins “You do not have to be good”

Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"

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The name of the child left home alone in Home Alone

Kevin

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This 19th century painter has notable works in Harper’s Weekly Magazine and Ballou’s Pictorial Magazine (famous oils include “Breezing Up” and “Boys in a Pasture”, among many others) is prominently featured in the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art

Winslow Homer

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This discovery upended gender role assumptions about prehistoric humans

Female big game hunters

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The German Mennonite holiday cookies that ideally age for a month in tins before Christmastime consumption 

Peppenates / peppernuts

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In addition to toilet paper, the US is facing a shortage of this classic Christmas item

Christmas trees

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This nighttime tryst was widely reported on as the Christmas star

The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

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A viral TikTok video released earlier this year features Nathan Apodaca drinking cranberry juice and longboarding to work while lipsyncing the 1977 song “Dreams” by this artist

Fleetwood Mac

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