My wife and I have our own little Christmas tradition; every year I read Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather aloud in the week leading up to the holiday. I had mixed feelings about the film adaptation, but I did enjoy this particular scene (which I coincidentally just got to today in the book);
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They seem to sneak past the alarms that my bluntness usually sets off.
This is a follow-up to the Christmas day quote - the Terry Pratchett take on the same question:
"Susan," said Twyla, from somewhere under the blankets.
"Yes?"
Ah, freedom... well, relative freedom anyway. I just polished off the last exam of this semester and won't be headed back to the classroom for about a month, although I'm anything but relieved.