What it's like to watch Lifetime's 24-hour Christmas movie marathon in October

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"Would I be inspired by the Christmas—uh, holiday—spirit a full month early?" Shannon Paulus says of her 24-hour holiday marathon experiment. "Would I, by dawn the next day, have packed my belongings and left the city for a home with a fireplace and a gigantic fir tree and a man with whom I shared one star-crossed moment years ago? Or would this overdose make me want to ride out the actual holiday season in a minimal-but-tasteful bunker?"