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Merry and bright

When decking the halls, why stop at holly? For that matter, why stop at the halls?

DeKALB – Nick Andreas always had an idea how he wanted his Christmas light display to look, but he couldn’t make the display a reality until last year.

“My mom told me, ‘When you get a house of your own, you can do whatever you want,’” said Andreas.

The back of Andreas’ home faces Rich Road in rural DeKalb, and he has filled his backyard with thousands of Christmas lights that flash, dim and change colors in perfect synchronization with Christmas music broadcast by a low-powered FM transmitter.

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