My Holiday Tradition

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A classic, and hilarious, NPR recording by David Sedaris recalling working as a Christmas Elf.


Longer version here

Santaland Diaries - This American Life

Writer David Sedaris's true account of two Christmas seasons he spent working as an elf at Macy's department store in New York. When a shorter version of this story first aired on NPR's Morning Edition, it generated more tape requests than any story in the show's history to that point.

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