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Revelation
She started with the garden first, stringing the lights up along the fences and around the edges of a pretty pond in the bottom corner. She adorned a line of trees then set up a couple of illuminated Father Christmas figures, one riding a sleigh across the lawn, the other climbing the wall up to the rear kitchen window. At lunchtime she ate a sandwich, sitting at the kitchen table and gazing out at her handiwork, feeling a little nervous at the lights coming on tonight after the solar batteries had charged up. The lets on either side were empty, however, and there were no houses visible across the valley from the patio outside the back door. She knew that some people might consider it tacky, but the idea of being asked to switch it all off at Christmas time—especially when
