Since childhood, since her early school days, New Year’s Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror: she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life, the solid, cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others.
Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
Everyday Strange 
Whew! That’s different!
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Definitely a different way of looking at the holiday!
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