My co-worker G told us an interesting, and downright bizarre, Christmas story today. I'm still pondering it. He and his family have the three Wise Men from a nativity set, and this Christmas they set out trying to find Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for the set. These aren't your ordinary nativity scene figures; these are hand-painted and are pretty big. They called the Big Store where they bought the Wise Men, but all of their Louisville and Southern Indiana locations were sold out of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. G and his family went to Missouri for Christmas to visit his parents and sisters, and on their way back home Monday, they decided to stop at the Big Store that was just outside of his parents' hometown. Lo and behold, Christmas is truly a time for miracles because they had one set left. They bought Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, and got back out to their SUV and carefully wrapped the Holy Family in blankets and coats, to keep them safe for the trip home. Once back in southern Indiana, they unwrapped the figures, only to find that Mary had a hole in the top of her head. The next day, they called one more Big Store and, yes, you guessed it - they had one set of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus left. So G took the impaled Mary to the Big Store and exchanged her for another one. Once home, they placed Mary with the rest of the nativity set figures, and discovered that she had a hole in her head, too. Only this hole wasn't on the top of her head like the other Mary; her hole was on the side by her veil.
Our suggestion was to try and repair the hole with some plaster and paint. That, or maybe put a silk flower in the hole, and have it look like Mary is wearing a flower in her hair.
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