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Just days before Christmas, Robert Honstrom, 58, was spotted at the Roseau Optometric Clinic, fashionably attired in a white lab coat and a colorful Christmas tie.

He's definitely no Scrooge around the office where he makes lenses and can "heal" wire-rim eyeglasses that are almost twisted into pretzels.

He is the tie guy.

"I am going to wear a Christmas tie until after New Year's or until somebody comes up to me and says, "That's enough, Robert!'"

This is his favorite time of the year. If only he were short and fat, he'd make a perfect Santa.

Robert is tall, doesn't have a beer belly, has b...