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Then we went into our living room to open our presents.
We'll take it in turns to open our presents around the tree and Mum will always cook the Christmas dinner.
We used to finish Christmas lunch and my uncle Mark would make us go before we could open our presents.
"Even on Christmas morning, we would have to wait to open our presents until Dad was done rounding at the hospital".
When I was young, we were not even allowed to open our presents until the shot of the Royal Ensign fluttering over the palace had faded.
The rest of his Christmas Day is pretty traditional, too: "We chuck the turkey in the oven, open our presents, welcome the rest of the family, start drinking and eating, watch Doctor Who, fall asleep.
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We shouldn't feel guilty about opening our presents or spending time with our families.
We would gather around the table from early evening, us kids excited about opening our presents at midnight.
But still they lumber in with their stockings and it is the first ritual of Christmas Day that we all sit in bed together opening our presents.
Mum, Beth and I spent the last seven Christmases opening our presents in Dad's room, only to leave an hour later so that he could get on with a day like any other – painful, mundane and repetitive.
On Christmas Eve, when we traditionally opened our presents, I found one from my mother under the tree.
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