Fabian Perez Dream in a Dream painting

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as well as steeples in O Little Town; they are replicas of famous sites in Jerusalem, Rome, Guadalupe, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City. Villagers dressed in what my cousin calls "sort of Bible clothes" keep stalls in a lively marketplace selling peppermint canes and ribbon candy, toys, craft items, and souvenirs; children tumble in the dooryards of little cottages; now and then a shepherd drives a small flock of sheep down the street. Just outside the village is what the brochures describe in vibrant and reverential language as the high point of every visit: the Manger.
Cousin Sulie gets a little teary when she talks about it. "It seems like outside, because you go into like a big tent. Like a circus, you know? but more like a what do you call them? A planetarium? A planetarium. With black night sky, and stars overhead? Even when it's a sunny day outside. It's the night and the stars, there. And the Star, the Christmas Star. Just blazing there right over that poor humble