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* Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in the Dec. 13, 2001 edition of The Graham Star.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

This column was to be about Bob Dole.

If a guy named Arius had succeeded, our Christmas celebrations would be a lot different.

Perhaps no other part of the Christmas story has prompted more discussion and arguments than the Christmas Star.

Specu-lation has continued for centu-ries as to what it could have been.

In a span of 24 hours last weekend, I had the pleasure of calling the fourth round of the 1A state playoffs and suit up to announce the stars of Georgia Championship Wrestling.

Advent comes from the Latin word “Adventus,” which means arrival or coming. It is a time of waiting and expectation for the promised birth of the Messiah.

What would happen if you had a scale large enough to hold the 331.4 million people in the U.S. exactly balanced?

Some time ago, several of us “older folks” were talking about how times had changed. I suppose this is something all generations have done as they grew older.