Granted, but only because your country has developed a taste for turtle soup and turtle-neck sweaters.
I wish I could meet Santa Claus in real life. The real one, not those fake ones you see in shopping centres all over the world.
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)