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Don’t cancel Groundhog Day

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published January 30, 2020 4:51pm ET
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Don’t cancel Groundhog Day
Groundhog Club co-handler John Griffiths, center, holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 133rd celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Phil's handlers said that the groundhog has forecast an early spring. | (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Groundhog Day is a silly annual tradition like many silly annual traditions: buying chocolate on Valentine’s Day, wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day, or bamboozling your friends on April Fools’ Day.

But, like those other cultural institutions, Groundhog Day is fun and, generally, harmless (unless New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is involved).

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