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It took 28 batches of gingerbread and a month of work and is the tallest house Dr. Andrea Resciniti has built.

Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Acton Bridge

If it’s the holiday season, there must be a gingerbread house greeting visitors to the Acton Free Public Library. 

Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Acton Bridge

Each year, Emerson general surgeon Andrea Resciniti sets her scalpel aside and creates a scrumptious masterpiece to display in the library.

This is the doctor’s 30th year of culinary construction and 17th gingerbread house donated to the library.

The doctor and her handiwork. Courtesy photo

A card next to the candy-festooned house reveals it took 28 batches of gingerbread and a month of work and is the tallest house Resciniti has built. It features Christmas trees, angels, snowmen, Santa Claus, and eight tiny reindeer with one red-nosed leader.

Photo: Christine M. Quirk/The Acton Bridge

The house will be on display through mid-January.

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