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We’ve got a past-present-future theme going for this holiday shopping suggestion list. And each item may have historic implications, depending on how seriously you take your football.

Or we can call it an up-in-the-air list with ventures, real and imagined, into the cosmos, plus a serious weather front.

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Central Florida’s biggest theme park story of the year is the opening of Epic Universe at Universal Orlando . There’s a dearth of park merch with 2025 branding, which would have been a nice debut-year touch.

Instead, we’ll seek out gifts from the Mysteries of 2020s Collection, more specifically, the popcorn container, to represent this slice of theme park life.

Universal sells the popcorn “buckets,” which are shaped like the

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