A Charlie Brown Christmas Wrapping

I ordered this year’s Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas from their website. They offer free shipping if you’re going to pick it up at your local Hallmark store. The shopcalled me today, and I headed over to pick it up. The counter lady had to go in the back to get the shipment. I figured she come back with a book, but no, she came back with this box.

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which she handed to me. It felt kinda heavy to just be a book. So once out of the shop, I open the box, and I find these:

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Then, under those, I find that the contents are wrapped in a layer of:

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And, opening that, I find on object wrapped in:

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which is wrapped around a sheet of:

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which is folded around:

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You cannot see clearly in the photo, but the book is enclosed in a layer of shrink wrap.

Wait, did I say book? They sent books. I ordered one copy, but there are two in the shrink wrap:IMG_1029

Maybe there really is a Santa Claus!

TOMORROW: The opening continues!

 

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