For some Latino families, Christmas comes a day early

By Hector Becerra, The Los Angeles Times

Santa Claus never came to our home in Boyle Heights. Not even in a half-baked disguise.

But if he had shown up on Christmas Day, I probably would have wondered why, because Christmas Eve was the day our family got together — our Super Bowl of holidays.

We hung out and ate tamales my mother had spent hours making. Then all the anticipation of opening our presents came to a head. One of the adults would act as the emcee as gifts were passed out. Wrapping paper flew everywhere, like the flesh off a capybara that had fallen in a piranha-infested river.

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[Photo by Ayuntamiento de Valdemoro]

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