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How Sprite Ruined Christmas

I love the Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas.” I love the story of Good King Wenceslas. I don’t like, don’t like at all, how, thanks to my brain-rotting, TV-obsessed childhood, I cannot hear the carol without thinking of Sprite. Argh!
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Rod Dreher
Dec 12, 2013 10:47 PM

I love the Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas.” I love the story of Good King Wenceslas. I don’t like, don’t like at all, how, thanks to my brain-rotting, TV-obsessed childhood, I cannot hear the carol without thinking of Sprite. Argh!

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