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"Without the idea of winter, half the charm of the Christmas carol spirit would be gone and most of its mystical spirit. Because this story transplanted in the imagination of early Christendom from an undefined season in the hot Middle east to a very different Europe at mid winter. And because of that, the nativity story has taken on a whole new magic with the thought of the bitter cold and the birth of a baby born in a stable."