Some visit local nurseries and pick their choice from long, straight rows of a youthful crop. Others buy potted specimens to decorate and illuminate. A few bootleg them from local forest reserves. Honolulu holds a large number of these rescued Christmas trees like tall, stiff exclamation marks. They nicely complement displays of Santa riding an outrigger rather than a sleigh, dolphins in place of reindeer, and elves working in aloha shirts.
Celebrations are always a little different in Hawai'i.
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