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Wareham MA 11/17/18 The Christmas train preped for a special ride with hundreds of first responders and their families on Saurday night when the locomotive hit a killed a man and a woman on the tracks. Photo courtsey of Henry Noe
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 photo, an employee plays the FAO Premium Piano Dance Mat during a media preview of the new FAO Schwarz store at Rockefeller Center in New York. Three years after it closed its beloved, fantasy land of a toy store on Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwarz makes its return to New York City. The new version will be smaller, but will have familiar attractions including a musical clock tower and the giant piano keyboard mat on which Tom Hanks danced in the film “Big.”
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