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Giant puppet takes on worries stuffed into "gloom box"

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — High anxiety about White House politics, hurricane flooding and even the threat of nuclear war with North Korea is adding an extra spark to the annual burning of a giant, ghostly marionette that serves as an effigy to gloom and doom. The ritual burning of Zozobra was attracting tens of thousands of revelers Friday to a Santa Fe city park for a mixture of wholesome and ghoulish fun. Inside the six-story puppet are reams of crumpled, handwritten notes about recent troubles and travails that people hope to leave behind.

 

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