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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Around this time every year, the Congregational church in my village holds a carol sing. Although mine is a secular family, we have felt a proprietary affection for our spare white church since my brother and I were small and hailed the bronze weathercock atop the steeple with “Cock-a-doodle-do, Rooster” every time we drove by. When it is lit up for the carol sing the windows glow yellow and the Rooster Church looks too perfect to be real, like a miniature church with a light bulb inside bought to accompany an electric...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Among The Leaves So Green | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

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