Cherished Christmas Crches ; with Their Popularity has Come a Wide Range of Prices, Sizes and Styles

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Every Christmas, without fail, we lost one of the Wise Men.

He was not misplaced, mind you, but crushed albeit accidentally, by my dad, a graceful athlete but proverbial china-shop bull. (Occasionally, but not often, there was a clean decapitation that could be remedied with some Duco Cement.)

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Cherished Christmas Crches ; with Their Popularity has Come a Wide Range of Prices, Sizes and Styles

Dad was always tripping over the Magi, because Mom perhaps dismayed that our baby Jesus was built into his manger, and could not be detached then dramatically reinserted on Christmas Eve decided our display should not be static. And so, the Wise Men snaked their way through our Manhattan apartment, traveling several feet a day from the East (my parents' bedroom) to...

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