love flash mobs; I’m content to watch most of them online.  With the Hallelujah Chorus flashmob, though, I wish I had been there, chomping on a limp slice of Sbarro and hating my life until the moment I realized something magical was going on.

Nobody likes hitting the mall during the holidays, but I wish I had been sitting in the food court for this flash mob, where 100 nondescript mall patrons (and one janitor) turned out to be a choir. They emerged from the crowd, starting with one woman and one man, and burst into the Hallelujah Chorus, astonishing fellow mall-goers.

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