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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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The store and the streets outside were resplendent in lights and trees, the pavement bustling with illuminated people busily preparing for the best holiday.
Gone.
Appliance stores, women’s clothing stores, charlotte ruse stores, hot dog trucks, electronic stores selling replacement TV tubes and recording devices that never worked, and stores selling everything you ever wanted. TV’s playing “The Honeymooners” in store windows with an eager audience outside.
Gone.
“The Lyceum” playing “White Christmas,” their overhanging roof covering a lobby with a ticket booth with a woman looking down at something out of sight, movie posters, and throngs of people.
Gone.
You see, the people who ruined downtown, find it fascist to celebrate a Christian holiday.
Not gone, and well supported by the Godless democrats.
For the first time since my mother decided not to have one, my wife and I got a Christmas tree this year. It’s wonderful. He’s only about three feet tall, and he has flickering, multi-colored