Sporting Christmas countdown into its final days

Ask the kids in your midst about the Christmas countdown, and they’ll tell you all about it: It’s exciting, infuriating, never-ending, filled with anticipation, and an exercise in long-suffering patience.
Not every kid experiences it the same way, though. There’s boys and girls in this city who don’t know if they’ll get a chance to open a present this Christmas, or to eat a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings, because their families simply don’t have the