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Christmas 2013 - A Fireside Chat

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Sandee and I have never sent Christmas cards, which is on one side not strange at all and on the other side actually amazing. And I mean that literally. I have just enough social skills to get by in this world. Ask my family and they will gladly attest to the fact that I never send them any signs of life to confirm my continued existence on this planet, no birthday wishes or congratulary contributions from my desk when anything great or wonderful happens in my growing immediate family. A van Strien family tree, where the older branches are breaking off, such as the passing of our parents, and where the family tree limbs just below the top have more and more issues, most often medical, but a tree with new lower limbs growing in a teeming way, as new offspring grace this world or new guys are joining the list (the van Strien family generates mostly female buds on the venerated family tree in need of fertilization). But does this, the now oldest, curmudgeon of them all send any of them m