Christmas Treasure Fiction
A Tale of a Celebrating Cuban-Style
The sense of exotic taste surrounded the Cuban home my family and I were about to enter. The flow of white angel hair and angel ornaments on the Christmas tree through a picture window and the subtle white lights outlining the vertical and horizontal lines of the entry gate and portico invited us to the best of meticulous Caribbean culture, a Cuban Christmas.
The laughter picked up as the Christmas dinner was prepared: a roast, yucca, black beans, and rice, a Cuban tradition. Soothing shades of brown inundated the house from imported wood furniture, which revealed a presence of greatness among the high-end art that decorated the walls. Stomachs growled as we waited till almost midnight for dinner to be served.
Looking around among the crowd’s chatter while sitting on a plush couch, I peered at the walls before me. My bes…
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