Merry Christmas from Denver

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:36:51PM -0800, Ted Ozolins took 20 lines to write:
> Seasons greetings to everyone. I've just got home from Edmonton Alberta.
> This was perhaps the greatest Christmas anyone could have given my wife.
> Being adopted at birth and having spent many years searching , it all
> came about and she met her brother, sister, inlaws and all the outlaws
> for the first time this Christmas. Being on the outside looking in, I
> realized that night, that Christmas at the Benedetto home was from the
> heart and not from some department store.

I love stories like this. If I may be so crass (and OT) to add my story:
I went to the midnight Christmas Mass, as I usually do, but for the first
time in a long time, I didn't go alone; I was accompanied by my fianc?. The
moment reminded me tangibly of the true reason for the season; I still have 
an inner glow from the experience of sharing that moment with here.

That's enough sappy sentimentality for this year.

Kurt
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