The first-person narrator notes that "There are Difficulties" with his family members and with Christmas. Some of the family are criminals, others are jerks, and others are poor. The relatives are an unpleasant lot who mostly avoid each other, "Except Aunt Florrie, who'd invited herself to our house for Christmas Day every year for forty years."
The family's father is an "Importer of Novelties," which seems to mean all things plastic, and the house is decorated accordingly. "Our home is lovely, too, at the moment. Ten-foot tree; holly and ivy and mistletoe everywhere, and they're all.....
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