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Christmas for Javier

By Don Barone
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, December 22, 2008

"Christmas Eve will find me Where the lovelight gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams." -- As Bing Crosby sang in "I'll Be Home For Christmas" RANDOM McDONALD'S, Conn. -- I'm standing at the condiment bar. Javier is on his second box of the chicken nugget things. Honey mustard sauce is everywhere. The 12-year-old is an eating machine. I'm trying to get an interview in between bites. And I'm losing. Javier has short black hair, big dark eyes and chipmunk cheeks with spots ...

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