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Jack Moon was on his way home Wednesday afternoon empty-handed. He’d driven up to Ottawa from Kingston that morning in a desperate attempt to salvage his family’s Christmas trip to Disneyland. A house fire on Dec. 1 had left Moon, his pregnant partner Krystiannah, their three young children and Moon’s mother homeless.

Lost in the fire along with almost all the family’s possessions was Moon’s passport. A few days later, Moon’s dog Zuis died at age 15.

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It had been a rough year.

“If only I could go back 10 days!” Moon wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page. “You and your family are safe bud,” a friend replied. “Lots to look forward to.”

But Moon’s bid for a rush replacement at the Ottawa passport office didn’t work out either.

“Of course I’m not getting my passport replaced!” he posted to Facebook at 10:49 a.m. “Birth certificate was too far gone from the damage so now it’s 5 days to replace that and 10 days for the passport so I’d say screw Disney Christmas!”