patrick.net

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My neighbors moved out two weeks ago. They had been on the block sixteen years, and their absence means, among other things, that the rest of us are struggling to put up the Christmas decorations on the forty or so tree trunks that line the street. I can tell you from experience that this is work. For years, Marcia had been the one-woman committee who spearheaded the tree wrapping, buying giant rolls of aluminum foil each season, and recruiting people to help; the whole thing took a minimum of two days. Though Marcia sometimes grumbled about not getting all the...

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