The bric-a-brac shop is brimming with glittering tinsel, snow-covered reindeer, cheery Santa dolls and wreaths.  I ask for a nativity set and the owner’s brow furrows.  “You know,” I say, “Mary and Jesus?  The stable?”  His face clears.  “No, we don’t have that,” he says.  And I leave with my big bag of tinsel for the Christmas tree, Santa hats and protruding rolls of wrapping paper.