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True Meaning of Christmas

True Meaning of Christmas

I attended a Christmas party at the Benedict Castle in Riverside, California last year. This Nativity set was at the front of the room. The statues are all li...
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I attended a Christmas party at the Benedict Castle in Riverside, California last year. This Nativity set was at the front of the room. The statues are all life size, I was told this is the same Nativity set that was in the Home Alone movie. It was just so beautiful I had to take a picture, The only edits to this picture was that I cropped the picture. I used my sony Xl100 point in shoot camera with just the lighting in the room.
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