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Message: <blockquote data-quote="domino" data-source="post: 2086523" data-attributes="member: 28855">At the dead of winter, there is a great festival, where communities and neighbors come together to pool their resources, prepare and share meals.  Among the powerful, it is a chance to make connections, and invite friends and allies to a feast, prepared by servants, and for talking, bargaining, and general politicing.  The middle and lower classes continue to share communal meals.This festival traces its roots back to the time when winters were much more brutal, and it was not uncommon for several people to die in a community because of the cold and illness. Nobody knows when, or why the winters became milder and less dangerous.  The festival itself, however, carried over.</blockquote>