Plot summary
The town celebrates the holidays with a Raven pageant, while Maggie dreads going home for the holidays and is publicly relieved (but privately saddened) when her parents instead take a Caribbean vacation. Joel, who is Jewish, feels guilty about getting his first Christmas tree. Holling sings " Ave Maria " for Shelly, who is pining for a traditional Christmas mass. Maurice is shocked to learn he has a grown Korean son (Min-Hyung Song), Duk Won, from his Korean War service when the man, his mother and his son show up unannounced. He confesses to Chris that a non-white son disturbs him, but eventually bonds with Duk Won.
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