"For there was no room at the inn".
The entire Christmas card industry depends on that poignant, near sentimental explanatory aside.
Whether the baby was born in a stable, or the shared accommodation animal space in a poorer house, there was nothing cosy or quaint about it.
A teenage single mother, heavily pregnant had just travelled 70 miles on the say so of some Emperor a thousand miles away. That same decree set the whole world moving. No one needed the inconvenience of an unwanted pregnancy.
"He came to his own, and his own people did not welcome him." Typical!
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