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Humor Me: The worst holiday brag letters ever

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This column, like many others, first appeared in The Dallas Morning News and on DallasNews.com . I usually let some time pass before posting them here.  -------------- The holidays are here, and you can see the magic in the Christmas lights, the family reunions and the excitement on a child’s face.   You can also feel the magic with a simple act of goodwill, such as helping a stranger, making a charitable contribution or by turning off Madonna’s spirit-crushing rendition of “Santa Baby.” But some of the best examples of holiday magic, I mean really wondrous stuff, arrives in our mailboxes. It’s the magic that turns a 30-year-old living with his parents into a misunderstood genius who is preparing to launch his own company and is – putting your thumb next to your index finger – this close to finding a cure for cancer. That’s right, I’m talking about the holiday brag letter! If you guessed it by the time you read “misunderstood genius” above, then, like me, you probably g