If one goes dark, they all go dark, like a string of Christmas lights.

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Everywhere you look there are porcelain ornaments: of more cats, of mice, even a couple of rabbits on the kitchen hearth, which she has adorned with a string of colored fairy lights.

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We visited around this time last year, but a couple of weeks earlier, while the holidays still lingered, the last few evenings backlit with the glow of string lights and New Mexican farolito lanterns.

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The Atrium Palace Condominiums is one of a string of lavish high-rises that look across the Hudson River to the bright lights and infinite possibilities of Manhattan.

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People don't realize that lead is all over their homes in a wide variety of products, particularly in things like extension cords and wire and cable, your holiday string lights when you're stringing them up this year, you'll probably see a warning label that says that the product contains lead, known to be a toxic chemical in the state of California.

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