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Christmas Memories

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Jim Reeves crooned about Christmas and reminiscing and how right he still is. Christmas always has that special magic, that touch of nostalgia that tugs at the heart- strings and the warm sensation that everything is all right with the world no matter the burdens you have been weighed down with the entire year long. In the past, Christmas in Goa certainly did not resemble the Yuletide scenes depicted on greeting cards. Modern Christmas tableau is closer to the western conception of Christmas. The glittering tinsel adorning artificial fir trees, glitzy lights, Christmas dances galore; Christ has definitely been moved out of Christmas, with ostentatious commercialism usurping his position. The simple, meaningful Christmases of yesteryear are but a note in history. Edna Noronha, a grandmother, shares her Christmas memories prior to 1958, when Goa was literally in the dark with the absence of electricity. The necessary star that signalled Christ’s presence to the Magi was fashioned out of