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Explain this holiday to me now, please. You know the one. The one with snow and trees and overweight men in bad suits with worse facial hair. I'm new! I don't know these things!

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Some peasant maidens were about to be sold into prostitution by their father. Saint Nicholas stepped in and gave them dowries so that they could be married instead.

It's all about the propagation of the patriarchy, really.