A few days ago I had dinner with someone who isn’t from Sedalia.
And over the course of the meal the topic turned towards the holidays at hand and the revelation that our fine city is host to a statistically high number of spectacular Christmas light shows. And then, of course, we offered to guide him on a miniature tour of Sedville’s finest A/V Christmas experiences.
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