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It was November 1977 when my family arrived in Canada from the eastern edges of the crumbling British Empire. My parents were young, idealistic and ready to raise their toddler celebrating Christmas like other little Canadian kids.
Just the previous year, they had been a footloose young couple singing along to Bing Crosby on their Simca car stereo: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” in tropical Singapore, the island of my birth.
But there was
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