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I'll be out in a minute, Hester said. Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. Don't ask me what it's about! she said. And what were we supposed to do? Our gang from the manger, ill-dressed for the weather, huddled uncertainly together after the granite truck turned onto Front Street and out of sight.

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