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Greetings, Quotaholics:
I know we oftentimes talk about our own experience concerning the topic
under discussion. However, there was no such thing as a "virginity
pledge" in my day. I was raised in a fairly religious household
and underwent years of indoctrination in a religious based school. Perhaps
that is enough information about my childhood and we will not further
discuss my misspent youth.
There has been an increase in interest concerning teenaged abstinence.
This includes all sorts of behaviors, including sex. Teens are supposed
to not smoke, not drink, not use drugs, not carouse, not do any of the
things their parents did when they were that age. Including have sex.
Virginity pledges are taken whereby the person promises not to indulge
in sex until marriage.
According to CNN
Health, Pediatrics published the results of a study concerning
teens who took virginity pledges while in junior high and high school.
The study was begun during the 1995-96 school year. Janet Rosenbaum,
Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed some
of the data used in the study. She compared similar groups of young
adults.
There were 289 teens who had taken the virginity pledge and they were
compared against 645 others who were raised with similar views on religion,
birth control, and sex but did not take any pledge.
Five years later when the kids were 20-23 years of age, 82% of pledge
takers denied or forgot ever taking any such pledge. The number of young
adults engaging in premarital sex were similar between the two groups.
What was dissimilar was the use of birth control. The pledge
takers were less likely to actually use any form of birth control and
far less likely to use condoms in particular.
Speculation led researchers to clarify their questioning. Some thought
young adults might use the old dodge about not having sex if they simply
engaged in oral or anal sex rather than vaginal sex. This did not seem
to be the case.
Funding is available in the US for abstinence-only education with nearly
triple the money available in 2008 when compared with 2001. About half
the states apply for such funds. Programs measure how many teens take
the pledge, but do not follow up and find out how many actually stick
to it or how many avoid STDs or unplanned pregnancies.
With abstinence-only sex education, there may be an implied taboo against
birth control and the use of condoms in particular. Rosenbaum is concerned
this may lead to more dangerous liaisons since the young people do not
require the use of protection during sex.
Most of those taking a virginity pledge are more conservative overall
and more religious with a large percentage of teens professing to be
born-again Christians. Andrew Goldstein, M.D. is an obstetrician and
gynecologist with Johns Hopkins and was not associated with the study.
However, he claims the pledges are "useless" and give a false
sense of security.
Everyone involved from Focus on the Family to Planned Parenthood offers
a similar message – parents need to talk to their children about sex.
They need to repeat the conversations often, using teachable moments
across time. "Parents tend to hope that schools will take care
of it - they can’t, obviously," said Rosenbaum.
Who taught you about sex? Did they include lessons in birth control?
Did they attempt to make sex seem off limits and inadvertently more
appealing? Did you take the advice and counsel of your teachers?
Who taught your kids about sex? Did you think the school was best suited
to this task? Did you supplement what the schools taught? Did you waive
the school’s sex education and opt to teach this subject all on your
own? What sort of value judgments were provided? Did you have to counteract
what the schools taught or did they convey the same attitudes to your
children that you espouse? Did you even know about it?
Blushingly,
P.S. Since it probably won’t be possible to sober this crew up
before Monday, we will be taking Friday off for New Years.
Thanks for a great year and I hope to see you back here on Monday!
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New Year Around
the World
All over the world,
people love to make a noise on the last midnight of the year. Church
bells ring out in England (fitted with muffles until midnight, then
allowed their full voice), and in Thailand the temple bells peal at
midnight as people call out Kwam Suk Pee Mai (Happy New Year!).
An old Icelandic custom has it that if the pantry window is left open
on New Year’s Eve, the pantry drift (a frost which is fine-grained
and sweet to the taste), will come in and, when gathered and saved
in a pot marked with a cross, will bring prosperity to the home. Icelanders
used to believe that elves moved house on this night, and could be
coerced into giving treasure to those who intercepted them at crossroads.
The People of Nigeria
allowed their Ndok ceremony, held biennially in December, to merge
with Western New Year customs, as Ndok was a rite of renewal. Only
the men engage in Ndok, which sees, as everywhere on New Year’s Eve,
much noisy, rowdy behaviour and, as in Iceland, people meeting at
crossroads which are believed to be places of assembly for spirits.
In Russia, Grandfather
Frost (D’yed Moroz), who looks suspiciously like Santa Claus, and
his assistant the Snow Maiden (Snegourka), will pay a New Year’s visit
to children, bringing with them gifts. In Greece, however, children
will have left out sweets, cakes and drink for St Basil, another Santa-like
character, for it is his feast day. They’ll even put a log in the
fireplace so he can step easily down the chimney. In Armenia on December
31, goodies are lowered down the chimney on a rope.
New Year’s reveling,
however, has been most shaped by the otherwise generally sensible
Scots, who really know how to kick up their heels to say "good
riddance!" to the Old year and "welcome!" to the new.
The singing of Auld Lang Syne <http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/AuldLangSyne.5.html>,
is, of course as Scottish as whisky, and was recorded from the oral
tradition by the Scottish national poet, Robbie Burns. Now, all over
the world, people mouth the words like football players pretending
the national anthem before a game. Despite its difficult words, it
is one of the world’s best known songs.
The Scots call this season the "daft days" or Hogmanay <http://www.hogmanay.net/hogmanay.htm>,
a word which might derive from practically anything if you listen
to the experts, such as the Greek for ‘holy month’ and the French
for ‘man is born’.
While some New Year’s
customs go back to ancient Europe and even the Middle East - we know,
for example, that 4,000 years ago the Babylonians made New Year’s
resolutions - the Scots put their stamp on it, for they always thought
it was a bigger deal than Christmas. They have yet to convince the
rest of the world, however, to indulge in the Hogmanay sport of "first-footing",
in which it is thought to be good luck if the first person over one’s
threshold in the New Year comes in the front door, is male, without
eye trouble, not splay- or flat-footed, fair haired, carrying a lump
of coal and a bottle of Scotch, and leaves by the back door. (In 1966,
19-year-old first-footer Alex Cleghorn was walking on Govan Rd, Glasgow
with his two brothers, when suddenly he disappeared and was not seen
again. Daft days indeed!) On the Greek island of Carpathos it is a
white dog they have to rush inside at the stroke of midnight.
Australians, with
their keen sense of culture and modernity, tend not to bother with
the lumps of coal, white dogs, elves and crossroads, tending instead
to get blithering drunk (like the wassailers of old England, the door-to-door
drinkers whose name came from the cry Wass hael!, which approximates
to Cheers!) and to pretend to have an ab-fab time …
Wassail
The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, keeps wassail.
Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis, 697
The head of the
house used to assemble his family around a bowl of spiced ale, nicknamed
‘lamb’s-wool’. He drank their health, then all did so from the bowl
as it passed around. The wassail bowl’s ingredients are hot ale, spices,
sugar, eggs and roasted apples. Try this old recipe:
Wassail cup
Ingredients
2 of 7.5 cinnamon sticks
4 cloves
3 blades mace
1 ginger root
1 level teaspoon nutmeg
4 apples
125 g sugar
300ml cups brown ale
300ml cider
Method
Core apples and sprinkle with sugar and water. Bake at 190 C for 30
mins or until tender. Mix
ale, cider and spices. Heat but do not boil. Leave for 30 mins. Strain
and pour over roasted apples. Serve in a punch bowl.
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"Never say there
is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to
make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness? That’s
nothing more than a good health and a poor memory." - Albert Schweitzer
"Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed
to produce food." - John Dos Passos, American novelist and war
correspondent (1896-1970)
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the Imp
Anachronism. We’ve all heard the word but we don’t use it very much.
If you enter that word in the on-line “One Look Dictionary Search” you
get 26 responses all providing explanations of what it means. Squishing
all of them together you get: a noun meaning; anything that is or seems
to be out of its proper time in history, especially earlier. So if you’re
watching the movie Braveheart and you notice Mel Gibson wearing a Rolex,
you’ve discovered an anachronism. The watch is inappropriate to the
historical time of the movie. That happens a lot in movies…like the
contrails of a 707 in the sky while the wagon train rolls west. Most
of us miss them since we’re concentrating on the action or the dialogue.
There’s an article
in Ananova about a Chinese archeological team that found a Swiss
watch in a tomb they were excavating. The tomb dates back some 400 years
and showed no signs of having been opened. When they moved the soil
from around the coffin, a “clump” fell off and made a metallic sound.
They cleaned it up and found a Swiss ring watch, stopped at 10:06. The
article did not speculate in what year the watch stopped ticking.
This is not an anachronism; rather it is referred to as an “Out-Of-Place
Artifact”, or OOPart. (I rather like that term, it’s like they’re
trying to say ‘OOPS’ by being cutesy). Archeologists and geologists
discover OOParts all the time but we really don’t hear much about them.
They’re put
on the shelf and ignored for the most part since mainstream scientists
don’t want to expend the effort to explain them. In some cases the OOPart
just might upset a theory that is accepted by the majority and reputations
might be tarnished.
Often the explanation is easy to find, particularly in the Middle East.
When an archeological dig at a tell goes down through a thousand years
of history through the ruins of five or six different villages built
on the ruins of a preceding one, it’s easy for some scraps from a newer
ruin to filter into the excavation of an older ruin. It’s harder to
explain when human artifacts that are 20,000 years old are found that
could overturn a theory that humans didn’t and couldn’t have lived in
the area earlier than 10,00 years ago. Even when the new findings are
supported by the geological record of their source and radio carbon
dating, mainstream science often ignores it, often ridicules the finders,
and usually refuses to put any real effort into either proving or disproving
the findings scientifically. So goes truth in academia, or the search
for truth…
Sometimes the OOPart is a hoax, and those are usually explained rather
quickly. Sometimes it is the result of sloppy work or hasty work, where
something falls into the dig that shouldn’t be there. But some things
are just too hard to explain and there’s no effort being made to do
it.
A few of those cases are:
A
hammer found in sandstone. Its iron head and wooden handle are solidified
in the sandstone. Metallurgical studies show that it was constructed
of a type of iron that could not have been made under present atmospheric
conditions.
Workmen quarrying stone near the River Tweed below Rutherford, Scotland
in 1844, found a piece of gold thread embedded in the rock of the quarry
eight feet below ground level.
Mrs. S. W. Culp, of Morrisonville, Illinois, was breaking coal into
smaller lumps for her scuttle, one day in 1891, when she noticed a chain
in the midst of the coal. When she reached down to pick it up, she saw
that the two ends of the chain were firmly embedded in two separate
pieces of coal that had clearly been a single lump only moments before.
In 1851, Hiram de Witt, of Springfield, Massachusetts, accidentally
dropped a fist sized piece of gold bearing quartz that he had brought
back from California. The rock broke apart in the fall, and inside it
de Witt found a 2" cut iron nail, slightly corroded. "It was
entirely straight and had a perfect head," reported The Times of
London.
There are several sources of OOPart stories (#2,
#3, & #4), all of which can lead you to your own conclusions,
as long as science doesn’t do any investigation. They can all be elaborate
hoaxes, but some of them would require science apparently unknown t
the time to pull off. They could be proof that humans (or some intelligent
tool making species) had a civilization long before the dinosaurs and
was totally destroyed. They could be proof that aliens visited Earth
in the past and left behind some artifacts. They could be proof that
in the future we perfect time travel, and when going back we left trash
behind. During a multi-epoch tour the souvenirs we took were sometimes
lost in a different epoch. (Another
collection of OOPart)
I particularly like the Mahabharata,
an ancient Indian document, describes a devastating explosion that shook
the continent. It fits in with an area in Rajasthan, India with a layer
of radioactive ash covering a three square mile area ten miles west
of Jodhpur. The radiation is so intense that the area is considered
dangerous. Scientists are investigating the site which was being developed
into a housing development. The levels of radiation have measured so
high on instruments that the Indian government has now restricted access
to the area. Scientists discovered an ancient city at the site which
shows evidence of an atomic blast which the experts date back to between
8,000 and 12,000 years ago. The blast destroyed most of the buildings
and probably a half-million people.
My theory on that is a nuclear war breaks out between India and Pakistan.
Each country launches all their nukes at one time. With dozens of nukes
going off almost simultaneously, a time warp is developed and a few
of the missiles are sent backwards and/or forwards in time to land and
explode. One that was sent back in time didn’t go very far and was the
trigger for everyone launching their entire arsenal.
Damn…that would make a great sci-fi movie. Vin Diesel could be the action
hero trying to stop it all by using the government’s secret time machine
to go back and correct mistakes. In real life, congress used that device
to go back and fix the mortgage crisis which just proves that time travel
exists, but congress can screw the same thing up more than once.
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Today the year is almost over, and once again, Patti got older. Yes, folks,
as I write this, it is Patti’s birthday. She’s already in bed, though,
the old fart has no idea this is going to be published. Patti,
I think I can speak for all of us, writers and readers alike, when I
say, "Thanks for another year."
The RGQ
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On
this day in history, December
31, 1960: The farthing ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
The word itself means "fourth part" and the coin itself was
worth ¼ of a cent or 1/960 of a pound sterling. The coins were
first minted in the 13th century and were made of silver. As the least
valuable coin, few were hoarded and so few survive to date. Many of these
small change coins were "cut coinage" where pennies were literally
cut into smaller pieces. The earliest minted farthings come from the reign
of King Henry III (1216-1272) rather than King Edward I (1272-1307) as
previously thought.
With prices rising, more people were less inclined to accept a large number
of coins for even small purchases. A push came to end production which
took place in 1956. The coins in circulation continued to be used as legal
tender until this date. Today, the pound sterling (£) is valued
at 100 (new) pence rather than the old system where a pound was worth
20 shillings, each of which was worth 12 (old) pence. The first decimal
coins were issued in 1968. The last redesign of British currency took
place in 2008.
"The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a
gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing
but the common copper." - Thomas Carlyle
"Remuneration!
O! That’s the Latin word for three farthings." - William Shakespeare
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
- Horace Walpole
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Kirsten
“It
is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of
ignorance.”
~ Elizabeth Taylor ~
I was about ten years old when the story about AIDS exploded. I was
at an age where kids don’t pay much attention to the news, so I didn’t
know much about it. All I really understood was that it was a scary
new disease that was more or less guaranteed to make you die. I had
heard rumours that gay people got it, but I wasn’t clear on the exact
means of transmission. Ten-year-olds back then knew a lot less about
sex than the ten-year-olds of today.
Since HIV/AIDS started receiving all this attention, there has much
speculation as to its origins. Theories range from HIV having started
as a monkey-borne illess, Outbreak-style, to it having been created
in a lab by evil people wanting to kill off segments of the human population.
The possibility that HIV/AIDS has always been around has never really
received much attention.
One of the most common markers for HIV is a strain of pneumonia called
PCP. All of us have PCP in our bodies, but our immune systems do a very
good job of keeping it in check. It is extremely unusual for a healthy
person to suddenly come down with PCP, but it is very common in HIV
patients; so common that it is generally accepted that if someone gets
PCP, it signals the presence of HIV.
A Dutch researcher by the name of Jaap
Goudsmit investigated the history of HIV/AIDS by looking into the
history of PCP. It turns out that there was a PCP outbreak in Europe
shortly after the end of World War Two that killed thousands of young
children and babies. Goutsmit analyzed a town that was hit particularly
hard by the epidemic - the Dutch town of Heerlen. Heerlen was home to
a training hospital for midwives, and between 1955 and 1958, 81 babies
there contracted PCP, 24 of whom died.
Drawing on the vast bodies of research linking PCP and HIV/AIDS, Goudsmit
surmised that the PCP outbreak of the 1950’s was actually an early epidemic
of HIV. He believes that HIV made its way into the Heerlen midwife training
hospital, probably due to a woman giving birth to what we would now
refer to as an AIDS baby. Since it was a common practice in those days
to reuse needles for multiple patients, the infection would have easily
spread to other babies in the hospital.
As Malcolm Gladwell
points out in his book The Tipping Point, if these babies did
indeed have AIDS, it is interesting that only a third of them died.
The rest of them recovered and went on to live normal lives. This, of
course, fits in with what we now know about the HIV virus. One of the
reasons it has been so difficult to find either a prevention or a cure
for HIV is its remarkable ability to mutate. It is very possible that
the HIV that was around in the 1950’s was a strain that most peoples’
immune systems could fight off. It also means that HIV could have been
around for a very long time - much longer than fifty or sixty years
- and that previous strains of it were so far removed from what we have
today that we wouldn’t necessarily recognize them as strains of the
same virus.
All of this makes the lives of today’s medical researchers kind of difficult.
How are you supposed to find a cure for something if the goalposts keep
moving? Perhaps the virus will someday mutate into a form where we can
“freeze” it and stop it from going any further. Or maybe it will mutate
back into something that is relatively benign. Or - yet another possibility
- medical science will advance to the point where researchers are able
to keep up with, or even predict, the mutations of the HIV virus.
We will just have to wait and see. One thing that does seem fairly clear
is that the landscape of HIV/AIDS research could be very different fifty
years from now.
Kaleidoscopically yours,
Kirsten
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Why do I do things like this to myself? I mean, I try to be a nice
guy and help people out, but somehow it always ends up causing me
more grief than it’s really worth.
Allow me to explain. I work with computers. Lots of computers. Sometimes
computers get too old to be of practical use to the College. Sometimes
they are need of repair, but it isn’t practical to take the time to
fix them. In either case, we give them away. Sometimes I take the
ones in need of repair and fix them, then I give them away. I did
that today.
One of my neighbors wanted a computer. He’s a good guy, quick to
offer a hand if it looks like you might need one. Unfortunately, he
is living on a fixed income and can’t afford a computer. When I asked
him if he wanted one of mine, his eyes got a sparkle in them. His
wife used to work for a tax firm, and she’d be able to use the computer
to do people’s taxes and take in a bit of money. And that’s all they
needed, just a little help.
So I put together a machine for them, a simple XP install with OpenOffice.
I explained that she would have to get her own tax software, and that
they would need an internet connection. I also explained that since
the monitor I was giving them had been sitting in the back seat of
my car for a while, they would have to let it warm up before they
put everything together.
Now, I’ve done this before so I’ve learned. I didn’t give them the
power cords. I gave them the computer, the monitor, the keyboard,
the mouse, but I knew she would try to put it together without waiting
for the monitor to warm up. I gave explicit instructions not to try
to plug it in until tomorrow, but I knew they would go unheeded. And
sure enough, about half an hour later, I had a knock at my door.
“She says it’s missing some cords.”
“Yes, those are the power cords. I told you not to try to plug it
in until tomorrow. That’s when you can pick up the cords.” My neighbor
doesn’t know a lot about computers, but he knows I do. Apparently,
his wife thinks she knows more. But that’s okay, I anticipated that
and no frozen monitors exploded.
After he came back for a couple more “visits”, I figured the monitor
had warmed up enough for them to plug it in, so I gave him the cords.
And that was my mistake. I knew he’d be back with a problem. They
always come back. Always. I told him to hide the cords for an hour
as the monitor needs more time to warm up, and he was back in half
an hour.
“She says this doesn’t work, it just keeps restarting.”
He handed me a floppy disk. I then recalled using that very same floppy
disk just days before, but I ejected it so the machine could reboot
from the hard drive. She pushed it back in and was trying to boot from
that.
Why me?
Tim a’Musing
Having a Ball with Yarns
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Wrap
around candle bottoms so they’ll fit holders tighter. - NorCalKat
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I guess my bright lady didn’t provoke many limerick
ideas! I’ll have to fill in with some left overs I found.
Here’s
another one submitted by Marian in Ellicott City. Same rules as
last time, use her first line or write a continuation.
Although her job really did suck
Monica was full of pluck
She would beg on her knees
For she really wanted to please
But now she has run out of luck
Hints:
Here’s a great new rhyming/composition tool. http://www.writerhymes.com/
There’s also a great rhyming dictionary at http://www.rhymezone.com/
Limerick rules. http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm
Submit
Opening Line
Submit
Limerick
There
was a young lady so bright—
because she went to college at night—
she took philosophy
while drinking some coffee
so that she could tell wrong from right. - Cassandra in
New York |
This
story I promise is true.
Paul Tsongas when asked by a news crew,
Said with no hesitation,
“That’s a good question.
Let me try to evade you.” - Anne Onimous
[Paul Tsongas, American Senator, 1941-1997] |
Proof that
beauty might not be skin-deep?
When asked the cost of her upkeep,
Dolly Parton thought
Then said, “It costs a lot
Of money to look this cheap” - Anne Onimous |
Going to
the cemetery can be right.
But you can avoid getting a fright
If you go in the day.
But there is no way
I’m going in the dead of the night! - Anne Onimous |
Sadly, when
life will not letup
Remember to keep your chin up,
Put on your best gown,
Don’t let age get you down . . .
It is too hard to get back up. - Anne Onimous |
In the morning,
when you feel screwed
Think of a liquid that brewed.
You need not fretter.
It makes you feel better.
Coffee’s a kick in the attitude! - Anne Onimous |
Here is
an old home remedy
That feels better than drinking brandy.
To cure my syndrome
I Want You To Go Home!
Hey! Made me feel better already! - E. Cole Aye |
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Re: Spending for the Rich and Famous
Just a quick
note to Tazz: Nowhere in the bible will you find the quote about "doing
unto others as you would have others do unto you". That quote is
form Confucius, at a different time. The quote you mean is :"Judge
not, so that you not be judged". I gotta agree with the rest of it,
though… if greed didn’t rule the
world, it would be much better place. - Jacques
(from S-E Ont.)
Reader Comment
Found this on a newsletter
(Bizarre News by Lewis, Gopher Central). Don’t know how true this
is but thought it was interesting! - Theresa,
South Carolina
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Some
teenage drivers in Maryland are covering their car license plates with
numbers belonging to teachers and others to fake out traffic cameras,
a parent says. The DailyTech Web site reported Monday the unidentified
parent told the Montgomery County Sentinel a few young drivers in the
county print authentic-looking numbers on glossy paper and tape them over
their plates. They then race past the traffic cameras, which record the
infraction and produce citations based on the fraudulent plate numbers.
They call the prank "pimping," the parent told the newspaper,
and teachers and fellow students are the most popular targets. "This
game is very disturbing," the parent said. "Especially since
unsuspecting parents will also be victimized through receipt of unwarranted
photo speed tickets." Montgomery Country police and education officials
said it was a new one on them but told the Sentinel they would keep an
eye out for violators."It is unfortunate that kids have a lot of
time on their hands that they can think of doing such a thing," said
Edward Owusu, an assistant principal at Wootton High School, where the
prank allegedly started.
[Looks like another reason not to trust
these cameras. I wonder if the police send you a copy of the picture
when they send you the ticket? Then you would be able to prove that
the car in the picture was not the one issued that plate number.
Then at least you wouldn’t have to pay the fine.]
Now,
I can not be the onliest one with an opinion out there, and surely I’m
not always right. I am aware of this. I hope to hear from more readers
now that this holiday season is over. No one wants to be right all of
the time.
Also I really enjoyed the 29-Th’s Tim’s Tales. I like to laugh and while
that was a subject that should never be taken lightly it was cool when
I read that 35 police were on the seen because it was their party. What
kind of silly robs a police holiday party? LOL! Yawl keep on enjoying
the holiday season, and have a great and Fantastical Tasmania New Year
no matter how you celebrate. In fact, why not write in about how you celebrate.
We aught not fuss about all the differences in us we aught to share. Love
to all! - REMEMBER, IT’S NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, BUT WHO YOU SHARE IT WITH
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS! FROM, CELINE KITTY! THE ROWDY DOG! AND THE, TAZZ!
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