I remember that there were always advent calendars. They were their own form of torture in that they seemed to progress so very, very slowly. After the 15th, it was as if each day refused to end, refused to give way to the next morning. We wanted to destroy the night. Opening each door in the morning was a pleasure. My sister and I would do it slowly, with a sense of the sacred[21]. When I went away to college a package came at the end of November. I opened it. There was an advent calendar inside. I called my sister. She had one too. Later, my parents split up and then divorced and certain things from the past seemed now sealed in the past forever. But then late November would come and a package would come. It was only then that I noticed that the packages were from my father. I had an image suddenly of my sister and me crouched in front of the advent calendar slowly opening one of the doors as my father stood behind us, unnoticed, silently looking on. Every late November for years and years now, there is a package. And there is an advent calendar from my father.

Vocabulary

1. defense: = defence，辩护，支持。动词形式为defend。

2. terrifying: 令人恐惧的;influential: 有影响力的;confess: 承认。

3. revolve around: 围绕，以为重要目的;crucially: 关键性地，及其;secondarily: 其次;ornament: 装饰物，点缀品;advent calendar: 圣诞日历，是一种可以吃的日历，共有24个小格子，里面装有巧克力，从12月1日起，小孩子每天打开一格，吃掉一块巧克力，全部吃完了以后，就到圣诞节了。

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