Day 328: It is Christmas today. I opened reddit and clicked a random post on a random subreddit, and saw my worst fear once again. I cannot escape this pattern – I see it in the clouds, I see it in the water, I see it in the frost on the windows, and now I even see it on my favorite website on Christmas day. This may be my last Christmas – almost everyone I know has suffered some fate related to this pattern and I have just looked at the presents that a mysterious man with a white beard delivered last night – they’re arranged in a familiar pattern… could… could it be? One long, narrow gift box, sitting vertical. Then two, parallel like the twin towers. Then another two under that, arranged the same way. And then….. one more vertical tower of a gift box. And to my horror, beside it… one that has fallen over. I shall hold onto hope that this nightmare may end. I… may be losing my grip on reality. The worst of it is that my pregnant wife left to go pick up a last-minute gift, and now I look at my phone and see a call from a familiar number… the Hospital emergency room. I have an uncanny feeling that my world is about to change forever.