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Junkanoo

/ ˈdʒʌŋkaˌnuː /
noun
a masquerade held at Christmas …

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Age does not make us childish, as men tell, / It merely finds us children still at heart. ”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749–1832)

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