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Ask the doctors: Thrombosed hemorrhoid can cause extreme pain

Dear Doctors: Intense pain during a bowel movement sent our son to the ER. He got diagnosed with a blood clot in a hemorrhoid and needed surgery to fix it. I thought hemorrhoids happen when you sit a lot. Our son is a football player, so it’s a big surprise that he even had them.
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Craig Johnson: ‘Scents Of The Season,’ a Longmire Christmas tale

The entire staff was there at our first Christmas Eve office party, including our Basque contingency Santiago Saizarbitoria and his wife Maria and even Double-Tough had ventured up from our distant substation in Powder Junction to sit on the bench by the stairs of our converted Carnegie Library and covertly feed Dog cookies.
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Q&A: ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ performers talk classic holiday story

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” performer Taylor Priday-Key is a self-proclaimed nerd about “Peanuts,” the beloved comic strip created by Charles M. Schultz that follows the adventures of Charlie Brown, a kind, sensitive boy, his pet dog Snoopy, siblings Linus and Lucy, and friends Peppermint Patty and Marcie, as well as a whole cast of other characters.
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Miss Manners: Terrible mattress at mom’s house

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Help! My husband and I stayed at my parents’ house and slept in their guest bedroom. Friends of theirs had gifted them with a terrible, but very expensive, mattress. It slopes severely toward the edges so that you feel like you’re falling all night long, making sleep impossible.
A&E >  TV

What to stream: Embrace the nervous energy of Safdie brothers’ films

Director Josh Safdie’s opus “Marty Supreme,” hits theaters on Christmas Day, with the tagline, “dream big.” This feverish, breakneck journey follows a tabletop whiz kid from New York City named Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) as he attempts to make it to the top of his sport, battling demons inside and out on his globe-spanning quest. It’s a lot like “Uncut Gems” (Safdie’s prior film) but set in the 1950s. Both Marty Mauser and Howard Ratner, of “Gems,” are cut from the same hustler cloth.
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Movie review: Chalamet achieves greatness in kinetic ‘Marty Supreme’

There’s an argument to be made that Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), the protagonist of Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” could be the father of Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), the protagonist of Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2019 cinematic panic attack “Uncut Gems.” Marty and Howard are versions of the same character: Jewish New York City hustlers addicted to risky business; inveterate gamblers who believe that just one more bet is going to pay off.
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