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'Cheerful' Mardi Gras Gives Way to Lent

by Renee Montagne, NPR
March 1, 2006

New Orleans caps a cheerfully defiant Mardi Gras season with plenty of costumed references to Hurricane Katrina. Now it's Ash Wednesday, and celebration will give way to Lent... a season of more sacrifice.

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  • Morning Edition, March 1, 2006
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