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Speaker 1: Each table has plates full of food. The adults have

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Speaker 1: fest of gingerbread cocktails while the kids are hard at

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Speaker 1: work finishing up their gingerbread houses.

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Speaker 2: So it's definitely a big eating fest. People have lots

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Speaker 2: of fun. You can either decorate while you go. Some

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Speaker 2: people like to first decorate then focus on eating.

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Speaker 1: I met seventy five Chestnuts annual Gingerbread house party in

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Speaker 1: Beacon Hill. Ashley jeron Escobar tells me it's grown a

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Speaker 1: lot over the years since they started it about twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago. It's become a long time tradition for Boston families.

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Speaker 2: We do start opening ticket sales in the summertime and

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Speaker 2: you'll see, like the sales role in people in July

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Speaker 2: are thinking about coming in and doing this.

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Speaker 1: They start seatings on Black Friday and keep them going

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Speaker 1: right up until Saint Nicker arrives. It's Ashley's tenth season

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Speaker 1: working this event, and she's seen kids grow up over

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Speaker 1: the years.

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Speaker 2: So they'll be like, I had you last year, we

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Speaker 2: remember you, and I'm like, oh my god, I can't

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Speaker 2: believe how bigger kids got. So it's definitely it's definitely

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Speaker 2: a fun family thing.

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Speaker 1: And Beacon Hill. I'm a freedman WBZ, Boston's news radio