At 01:10 PM 12/2/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>I love the holiday season.  Thanksgiving is great, but Christmas is even 
>better.  I like them
>on several levels, and my joy during the season is not affected by how 
>others choose to
>celebrate or not.  For some people, Christmas is an excuse to shop, and 
>for the retailers, the

I used to love the holiday season, but those days are long since gone.  For 
me I think it is not having my family around on the holidays, and not being 
able to afford to travel to be with them.

I come from a pretty close family that always did holidays and birthdays 
together.  I didn't appreciate it when I still lived there, but now that I 
have been away for 15 years I really miss it.  For a number of years Ann's 
family lived here in Tucson and that helped a lot, but they have all moved 
away and it is just the two of us now.  To me, the holidays have just 
become another day, nothing better, nothing worse.  I don't get depressed 
about them, but I don't see them as being anything special any longer either.



Scott

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