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At the beginning of the month, I was lucky enough to travel to Prague and stay with a friend I've known since we were two. We saw a ballet of The Little Mermaid, which featured huge, skeletal, deep-sea puppetry, and dancers who moved in slow-motion, like seaweed. The ballet was very strange, dark, and emotional. I loved it. IMG_4371 (I wasn't supposed to video any of it, shhhh!) We walked in the snow at midnight and watched an angel chorus and drank hot punch in the old town square, under the gigantic Christmas tree. Everything was building towards the shortest day,…