Candy Cane Lane's conscientious objector
I read in the newspaper about a 65-year-old woman named Ester who resolutely refuses to decorate her house there, despite 48 years tradition. She hates that it lasts three weeks and fills the neighborhood with slow-moving vehicles with exhaust fumes. She belongs to the Scandinavian Cultural Group of UW, which hosts professors and families from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Holland. Her husband is a retired astronomy professor with Parkinson's disease. Her house is like an elegant black dress at a party with sequined ballgowns with tiaras.
This year this neighborhood's houses had signs with "Peace" in different languages. I saw her house tonight. Someone had put a sign in front of it which said "Fred." That means "Peace" in Norwegian.
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