Made 3 trips so far, I figured I could do it alone on foot because it's only a mile . . . uphill . . . Interesting, the place is a hovel but they hung a Christmas wreath on the door. As the darkness fell I could see that all the places were lit up, some amazingly so. No cliche, the poorer the structure the brighter the lights. When the church bell rang it was peaceful. I remember about 15 years ago I was driving from San Francisco to Chicago and I'd just passed through Oklahoma City. The Phone Company had an enormous bright Santa and his sleigh covering about 500 square yards of blank brick wall and then I went over a rise and saw an entire town/suburb and every house, street, driveway was outlined in bright blue fairy lights, except one. And I wondered if the kid who lived there, if the other kids teased him, or if they were going to help him trim his house too.

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