If you're opting out of gathering with relatives but still want some connection to tradition, consider re-creating a holiday decoration that's important to your family.
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If you're opting out of gathering with relatives but still want some connection to tradition, consider re-creating a holiday decoration that's important to your family.
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Not everyone is sad to be missing the holidays with family this year

In pre-pandemic times, Sarah Sheehan always headed to North Carolina for a hectic holiday schedule that included hopping between the homes of several different relatives, a Christmas Eve midnight church service and caroling around the rural county where her extended family lives.