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To: Dale Baker who wrote (99309)	12/26/2008 12:07:57 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540882

We had a more limited Christmas and everyone was perfectly content. I had wonderful wonderful gifts from the boys. The younger is learning to notate music and gave me his first "manuscript" of an original composition with a note about how he wanted me to be the first to own one. And the older reformatted for self-publishing the book I had written for him for his high school graduation- it contains a lot of my columns and stories about the boys. But the lovely part was the letter he wrote with it, about how much it meant to him and the love he knew went into it. They spent a great deal of time and effort on these gifts and they are the most wonderful gifts I have ever received. But I know also how HARD it was to downsize. It feels weird, but once you do it, it feels GREAT. For years, people have slowly come to believe they NEEDED things- to own, to give. Maybe we learned something this year- and will never go back to the excessive spending of the past. We also got way fewer Christmas cards.