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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 550641" data-attributes="member: 158">This is true, and has been noticed for many years (anyone remember the theme of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special?) But what I have noticed among my own family has been a swing AWAY from gift-giving and getting, and back TOWARD the true gifts of Christmas: getting extra time to spend with friends and family, that we have less and less of these days.You know what they say: You can CHOOSE your friends... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The second greatest truth I have ever learned out of life is that all humanity is a social being - to stand alone is to live alone and to die alone, and this affects our psyches more than anyone will ever admit, to be truly alone. Everyone needs a family, regardless of its form, and families can take every possible shape and size. (It's the whole "urban tribes" thing, but writ much larger than that.) If it happens to be in the form of your actual family, great! If it's the three or four people that you game with every week, and who shares your sorrows, joys, announcements, and hesitations, then that works equally as well. If you have a family, no matter the form, you are truly blessed. The form does not matter; its STRENGTH does.Merry Christmas to all, and I hope 2003 brings happiness to you - without a trace of sarcasm whatsoever. Henry</blockquote>

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