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The Saga of the Christmas Tree

While in quarantine, I became well acquainted with Taobao (Chinese Amazon) because I needed some Christmas decorations. Taobao has a lifesaving feature for me:  you can search by photograph.  That means that I can find whatever I want on Amazon, then use the search-by-photo feature and find that same item on Taobao.  Sweet.  I don't have to do too much translating.  Wonderful feature.  Works well.  Semi-mostly. (I'm starting to sound Chinese.) Remember this is China and what you see is not what you get.     Case in point:  my Christmas tree.  I ordered  a 7ft (2.1m) prelit tree.  This image looks *exactly* like the picture I found on Amazon. Here is what arrived:  As it turns out, it wasn't prelit, but it did come with two strands of 100 lights.  Nice. What to do other than get back on Taobao and order some lights and a heck of a lot more garnishings than I had because there are enough gaps to throw a cat th...