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Readers, here are your top complaints for Festivus 2020

The airing of grievances was more cathartic than ever this year.

The alternative holiday known as Festivus can be traced to the classic 1997 episode of Seinfeld called “The Strike.” (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Inc.)

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