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Dave Boroughs's avatar

Another great story, Jeanine. This is my third expat Christmas with my Mexican family, my first with full immersion. As you describe, the holiday is long, non-stop and all about friends, family, food and music and drink. Very few, if any, decorations. No Santa. Only the youngest kids received a present on noche buena. Everyone hugged with a "feliz navidad" at midnight, then out came the pinata! So far removed from the commercialism and competitive greed I've known for my entire life, I can only look forward. Felices fiestas y un rico año nuevo!

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

Thanks ... you so capture the spirit of Mexico and the differences in culture that always make understand a bit about what we've lost ... or maybe never had. "Family" is such a much bigger concept in Mexico.

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