<p style="margin-bottom:16px">Advent and Christmas can be a commercialized, monthslong celebration of consumerism.</p> <p>One way sisters help return the holy meanings of the holidays is by creating and selling gifts that, thanks to the internet, can now be purchased from convents across the United States without traveling beyond a computer or mobile device.</p>
Dorset, Vt. The latest U.S. census figures show that 94 percent of the population of Vermont identifies racially as white. But history shows that when it comes to race, Vermont has been no brutal Mississippi, no vicious Alabama .
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