That's true JoeD, but that would make a cool alternate history book of its own...no Civil War, slavery dying slowly, where it stops last. How it affects the nation, particularly the economy.
I hate holidays scheduled on a day of the week because you never know when they will actually land. And to change any holiday as big as Christmas for commerce reasons just makes me want to smack people.
I don't know....if the going rate of alligators is one six pack of beer, that's a lot of gators in one paycheck -enough to finally start my own gator farm.
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