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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Friends in snowy places are posting their decorations already so it must be time for Christmas tree shopping.\u00a0 It gets cold here in Northern California, but the snow falls only at higher elevations so choosing a tree isn’t quite so picturesque. If we go after dark, there might be coats and scarves and maybe mittens involved, but it’s not exactly like your snowy scenes.<\/p>\n

I have a picture of how it should be and I don’t want it spoiled. It’s Christmas movies, Christmas commercials, Christmas ads, Christmas specials on TV.\u00a0 They mess with my expectations. Everything looks like the inside of a snow globe.<\/p>\n

Of course there should be snow at the Christmas tree lot, but it\u2019ll be the dry float-y kind that makes everyone look good.\u00a0 The snow won\u2019t make your hair or hat soggy.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0\u00a0 Music will waft from the trailer\/shed where the people who run the tree lot stay warm.\u00a0 Two people over by that giant fir will all of a sudden start dancing.<\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s nose will get red in the cold. No one will be\u00a0 impatient because you can\u2019t make up your mind. When you find THE tree, here’s what happens next. This is all real.\u00a0 It happens at every Christmas tree lot where there’s snow.Once you decide which tree, you\u2019ll find the gloved hand of a pretty lady\/handsome man is already holding onto the other side and the two of you will decide to settle your tree differences over a cup of cocoa with marshmallows or bourbon stirred in. I have no idea what you people in tropical climates are going to do for romance this season.<\/p>\n

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