Christmas Eve

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Author Dennis Lehane is offering a monetary reward and said he will name a character in his next book after whoever finds his dog Tessa, who has been missing from his Massachusetts home since Christmas Eve. (Associated Press)

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Hailey Greene (from left), 12, Joey Greene, 6, Carly Greene, 10, and Tyler Greene, 14, make a snowman on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, as a Christmas Eve snowstorm blows through Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Journal Newspaper, Ron Agnir)

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Dressed in toy soldier costumes, men take to the water on water skis on Christmas eve. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Air Force Lt. Col. David Hanson, of Chicago, takes a phone call from a child in Florida at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs on Christmas Eve 2010. The tradition began in 1955, as a result of a newspaper typographical error. (Associated Press)

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Lithuanian Orthodox Church believers light candles during the liturgy on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the Prechistensky the Cathedral Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. The Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, 2011, in accordance with the old Julian calendar. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)