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A Very Merry Matchup Machine

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A Very Merry Matchup Machine

Written by: Marcus Reed
Narrated by: Jade Monroe
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A Very Merry Matchup Machine is a sharp, warm look at how holiday rom-coms, small towns, and well-meaning relatives turn December into a matchmaking factory—and what that does to anyone who doesn’t fit the script. Starting from the cozy chaos of a Christmas romance full of pageants, cocoa and “accidental” setups, this book opens the casing of the holiday-love machine to examine the gears underneath: the pressure to be coupled by year’s end, the way communities act like human algorithms, and the quiet shame of spending the season unresolved.

Rather than mocking the genre or worshipping it, A Very Merry Matchup Machine shows how these stories can be both comforting and coercive. It offers a more honest version of “merry,” one that makes room for single people who aren’t projects, relationships that begin off-season, and Decembers where the most radical pairing is you with your own life. It’s for anyone who loves holiday movies, feels strange inside them, and wants to carry the glow into January without the algorithm deciding what happiness should look like.

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