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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThree beautiful things from the past week:<\/p>\n
1. My friend’s mother, who is recuperating from complications relating to surgery, got to come home on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n
2. There was conversational snow on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
3. We got a late jump on our drive north Saturday, which meant we were driving through northern New Jersey along the Garden State Parkway after dark, rather than during daylight. After disappointing me after Thanksgiving, the New Jerseyans of that area reclaimed their title of most festive neighborhoods of the mid-Atlantic with their cheerful and abundant holiday light displays.<\/p>\n
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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