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Christmas On St. Laurent: A Fictional Narrative
She's been going to the Christmas Carnival for years, enjoying the Majorettes, Steel Pan, and soaking up the colorful revelry that is her culture. Christmas on St. Croix always brought Crucians down from the States and back home, one such person was Christina Laurent. Her family moved from the Islands three years ago when she was seventeen, now she was twenty and back home.

His name was Dion, he was older than her by five years, he worked as a correctional guard at the prison and he was everything she didn't know she had been waiting for.

Sometimes you go to Carnival for fun and find

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