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Strings of twinkling Christmas lights hung from the ceiling between the stars he’d helped to cut out from silver paper.

Carolina Medrano, 38, a store employee who on Monday evening rearranged twinkling gold chains, said that even with the discount, business had still been “super slow.”

The sky is an aurora of reds, oranges, and violets, dotted with infinite batches of twinkling stars.

“My dear Penny,” she said, eyes twinkling, “I hope you are not afraid of heights.”

As night fell, beneath twinkling string lights, laughter and chatter filled the air.