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<div><font size="2">Wishing everyone a joyous season and happy and healthy New Year. <br>
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<div><font size="2">Obviously being Jewish I never really had Christmas. My 21 and 18 year old grandsons were raised Jewish so I missed out on it again. We have a four year old granddaughter in Atlanta who gets both so I am having fun seeing it through her eyes. Her other grandmother,who lives here, was actually born in Meriden. Of course after four generations of boys on Alan's side, having a girl is a whole new world. I see a lot of me in her so good luck to her parents!<br>
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To: oxford63 <oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com><br>
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<div>What wonderful news and Christmas greetings Nancy. You and George look so attractive and happy❗️Thanks for the update.
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<div>Merry Christmas 🎄 to everyone in our class ❣️</div>
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<div class="yiv2210080646ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">It’s now over a year since our house burned in the October, 2017 northern California wildfires. I recall writing to you all then about our situation and how I was feeling at the time – devastated and overwhelmed. I now realize how unbalanced and fragile I was. Things for my husband and me have much improved since then.</div>
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<div class="yiv2210080646ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">We are quite settled in our new house. It is now furnished very comfortably, although without many decorative touches. Everything is new. New is lovely and unworn. On the other hand, new has no roots or memories attached. So new has some down sides, but as time goes on new will grow its own roots and make its own memories. All in all, we are in extremely good shape and extremely fortunate. I shudder, however, each time there is another destructive wildfire in our state.</div>
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<div class="yiv2210080646ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">We received a good injection of “normal” when we returned to Massachusetts for a few weeks this summer and then again in the fall. My husband and I now own a summer home near Plymouth that my grandfather built in 1920. In the last few years I had questioned why I kept the place because it is so far from where we live and we use it for only part of the summer. Returning there this July, however, nourished my soul. In the comfort of familiarity I was able to reconnect with myself. I will be keeping the house.</div>
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<div class="yiv2210080646ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">In October we attended the wedding of my son-in-law’s sister. I’ve included 2 photos from the wedding. One shows off my youngest grandchild, Lina, dressed for the Indian wedding; the other is of George and me in our (new) party clothes. </div>
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