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Southie was alive Friday on St. Patrick's Day, and the rest of the weekend is expected to be just as busy

by David Jansze Here I am on the ocean liner THE PACIFIC SKY in the Coral Sea on a pre-Christmas voyage from Sydney to New Caledonia.  The memories of how we celebrated Christmas in Sri Lanka come back.  The house was painted, the walls white-washed with low black tar edgings all round the rooms and the chairs were re-cushioned.  The traveling tailor came home, measured the rooms, and made the curtains on our old Singer sewing machine. Red Mansion polish was applied on the cement floor, which got a shine from a heavy handled brush.  Cake making was a ritual, where my mother laid the rules...