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January 5 brings Twelfth Night, & tomorrow: Twelfth Day, or Epiphany. On the blog today, the close of the Twelve Days of Christmas: www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/twelfth... We cover the Three Kings, la Befana, and some advice for those of you who really love Christmas and hate to see it go.

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Twelfth Night, Twelfth Day | Book of Days The setting sun on January 5 brings Twelfth Night, the beginning of the end of the Yuletide festivities and our journey through the Twelve Days of Christmas. While nowadays it is rare to find a family that celebrates Twelfth Night, in years past, Twelfth Night celebrations in many places might rival those of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. By the Fifth of January, though, most of us these days are back to the workaday world, and back to some semblance of ordinary time. Even I, a longtime advocate for a return to Twelfth Night celebrations, have some trouble celebrating Twelfth Night unless it happens to fall on a weekend. The fact is that the contemporary world is tough on holidays like Twelfth Night, and tough on the Twelve Days of Christmas, in general. We rarely are afforded the time and space to celebrate them fully, and so many of them––Twelfth Night, especially––fall by the wayside. https://www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/twelfth-night-twelfth-day/