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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I believe that I could probably quote the entire short story without any better results. Therefore it is up to Issybird.
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It is, as your spoiler shows,
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.
From another (very) short story, so I may well end up quoting the entire thing:
She had a splendid Christmas all day. She ate so much candy that she did not want any breakfast, and the whole forenoon the presents kept pouring in that had not been delivered the night before, and she went round giving the presents she had got for other people, and came home and ate turkey and cranberry for dinner, and plum pudding and nuts and raisins and oranges, and then went out and coasted, and came in with a stomachache crying, and her papa said he would see if his house was turned into that sort of fool's paradise another year, and they had a light supper, and pretty early everybody went to bed cross.