dear 8lb 6oz newborn baby jesus,

please forgive me for waiting until 2008 to start listening to ‘the national‘.

to make up for it, i’m going to post ‘fake empire‘ on my blog for everyone to enjoy.

i’m not sure if that’s legal and stuff, but…i think that’s what you would do.

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amen.