A tree that arrives every year
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Every December, Boston puts up a Christmas tree on the Common, and every year it is a gift from a Canadian province two provinces and one border away. It has arrived almost every winter since 1971, and the original reason for it is a morning in 1917 when a city was flattened by the largest explosion humans had ever produced.
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