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It's also a testament to Leona's kindness that, instead of dropping his two co-workers at the airport, he actually spends real human pounds on parking so he can accompany them and their exorbitant amount of luggage to their terminal. Ruggie's headed back home to Mwanza and seems to have packed gifts for the entire population of children there. Jack's more conservative two-piece luggage fits enough winter clothing to go traipsing with his boyfriend's family in some Disneyish Finnish winter wonderland.
A testament to his kindness. Or his loneliness, maybe. As he lets the two travellers hug him goodbye at the final gate, there arises an begrudging acknowledgement that happiness-wise, he's in beggar territory, and can little else than scrounge up the scraps of second-hand joy exuding off of Ruggie and Jack. Everything about the holiday season is awful, including the songs.
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Leona, two years out from his post-grad and fresh into this winter's round of seasonal depression, runs into a classmate from his Oxford philosophy class who is, unfortunately, really fucking hard to forget.
Alternatively: Two Disasters Somehow Manage to Cancel Each Other Out, the anti-Hallmark Christmas story.