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Peter Agre

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

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Peter Agre describes a family tradition where they ate a special dish called lutefisk during their Christmas meal. After dinner, his father would read passages from a Bible that was written in Norwegian.

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