It wasn't that shops weren't selling advent calendars, it was the kind of advent calendar they were selling. Hager Books of Kerrisdale has a variety of calendars that any shop that knows its clientele is forced to carry. Of course I wasn't interested in the Harry Potter advent calendar, so I went with something more traditional, which is to say I went with something that reminded me of my childhood: a painted scene of Mary, Joseph, animals, a manger in the distance, the unseen Magi (presumably on the other side of the hill) ...
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