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. . . that any eight-year-old can assemble it. Ha! says Mrs. Heath, in fact, HA! as she spends yet another Christmas Eve on the furnace room floor

You know that house where, the night before Christmas, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse? Well, that wasn’t our house. That was a house where St. Nicholas came down the chimney with a bound and did absolutely everything. It may come as a surprise to many people, but the fact is, St. Nicholas doesn’t do one blessed thing for the Heath family.

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Aloïse Buckley Heath

Aloïse Buckley Heath (1918–1967) was the sister of National Review’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr.

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. . . that any eight-year-old can assemble it. Ha! says Mrs. Heath, in fact, HA! as she spends yet another Christmas Eve on the furnace room floor

You know that house where, the night before Christmas, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse? Well, that wasn’t our house. That was a house where St. Nicholas came down the chimney with a bound and did absolutely everything. It may come as a surprise to many people, but the fact is, St. Nicholas doesn’t do one blessed thing for the Heath family.