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How to make the original Easter Egg

NEW YORK _ Forget lavender floppy-eared bunnies hopping through quaint pastoral scenes. The original Easter eggs were talismans dyed in baths made from berries and bark and portrayed symbols of eternal life, bountiful harvests, gods and goddesses.

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