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Advent Quiz: Last day!

This is the final quiz, readers, since I’m off work now until 2019.

So today is a special TRUE or FALSE round, and since it’s a little easier there are seven questions instead of five.

  1. Jesus had a brother called Simon.

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Advent Quiz: Day 14

Day 13 here.

Today is a kind of mix of food and drink and entertainment and anything I could think of that didn’t seem too hard…

  1. In ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’, what vegetable does Jack Skellington have for a head?

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A Free Dreamer Advent Calendar Review: Tulsi Vivah by Anna Kaling

Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Rating: 5 stars out of 5

A Story from the Warmest Wishes: Dreamspinner Press 2018 Advent Calendar

The festival of Tulsi Vivah ushers in the Hindu wedding season and tears away the love of Kristopher’s life. Three years of passion and tenderness are reduced to a shameful skeleton in the closet as Arjuna submits to the marriage his parents have arranged for him. His family has never even heard Kristopher’s name.

The festival, a ritualistic wedding between the holy basil plant, Tulsi, and her eternal lover, Vishnu, is as much of a play-act as Arjuna’s upcoming nuptials, but he believes the wedding will honor his parents and please Vishnu. So why is his Tulsi plant—whose leaves heal and bless the devout, who is Vishnu’s representative on earth—dying? Arjuna tends to her with all the care of a concerned parent, but it might take more than his devotion to save…

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