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11.07.2020 19:40

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Christmas is a very special time of the year for most people, but for the Cliftons of Hastings, Nebraska there is another cause for_______________ (celebrate) this year. They have just received a Christmas card that the family has been using for 50 years.

It all started when Mr. Clifton’s grandmother bought the card to send to her nephew, who had just moved to the West Coast. The card had a __________ (fun) cartoon saying, ’The dearest Christmas card for someone dear to the heart’. Inside, it went on with an ____________ (explain) about the increasing price of greeting cards and how it would be nice if the recipient sent the card back so that it could be reused the ________(follow) year.

The card has small tabs for the signature of the ____________ (send), each of which is to be torn off before the card is posted again.

A few days ago it was sent from a care home in Oregon, where David Clifton’s elderly father is _________________ (current) living. ‘We asked our children not to ___________ (wrap) their presents until we opened that envelope for the 50th time. This is really special.’

Each year since 1958 the card has been delivered by the postman to the doors of family members living in the four corners of the country. It has now become such a _________ (value) family possession that one family member is always appointed as its keeper. The card has been sent to _______ (difference) relatives living in Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida, Nebraska and Oregon.

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