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A Perfect Christmas in the Desert

by Craig Childs, NPR
December 22, 2006

My son's first Christmas was not spent in the snow. There were no trees. There was hardly anything living but the cactus which bristled up through black, wind-sharpened rock. We were a small group of travelers in the Gran Desierto of northern Mexico.

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