December 2011
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Holiday Fire Hazards
I presented her with the gift, a slim box about twelve inches long and four inches wide. It was wrapped in the only thing I could find in Chinatown — a garish red and yellow paper sprinkled with a pattern of tiny dark green branches that were probably supposed to be mistletoe but which looked like little pieces of burnt spinach. Perhaps, with a better grade of printer’s ink, the...
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