Was it hard to have your birthday so close to Christmas when you were a kid?
Yeah, pretty much. Most of my family gave me one gift and said it was for both Christmas and my birthday. The one exception was my Grandpa. His birthday was Christmas Day, so he understood. But he made a joke of it. One year he gave me a fishing pole for Christmas and the reel for my bithday. He topped that the next year with a flashlight followed up by batteries. He was one cool old dude.
My father and my first girlfriend both had birthdays on Dec 24.