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Susan Marie Groppi is a high school history teacher and a World Fantasy Award winning science fiction editor. She also holds a doctorate in the history of science. Susan lives in Brooklyn, tends a not-quite-thriving army of houseplants, and spends too much time talking about books and cooking.
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file under “little known urban holidays.”

Today, the first trash-pickup day after Epiphany, is the day where the streets are lined with the dessicated corpses of Christmas trees. I keep trying to give this a German name, something something “die töten Tannenbäume,” but I can’t quite make it work.

Posted Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 5:37 pm. Filed under: personal.

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5 Responses to “file under “little known urban holidays.””

  1. Jackie M. said at :January 9th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    Der Tötentannenbäumenabfallentsorgungtag.

  2. David Moles said at :January 10th, 2007 at 1:56 am

    Jackie wins.

  3. David Moles said at :January 10th, 2007 at 1:57 am

    (Why am I the one living in a German-speaking country?)

  4. Jackie M. said at :January 10th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    To build moral fiber?

  5. David Moles said at :January 10th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Oh yeah. Moralballaststoffbildung.

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