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It's the time of year when people are struggling more than usual. There is more depression, more desperation, more financial stress, more yearning for freedom and in general, more of almost everything that makes life difficult for many people around…

I'm sitting here in row "L" of Clowes Hall on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis. It's intermission and Janet and I are watching "The Nutcracker" - that annual holiday favorite that so many of us have grown up…