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Important matters first: my brother-in-law returned from Japan with these Kit Kat Santas, and my first thought was, Why does Japan always have cooler stuff than us? But then I learned that we have Kit Kat Santas too—at Walmart, on Amazon—and then I was bummed that my fantasy about the perfection of Japan had been spoiled. Desire is illusory.