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Hi Linh,

I'm not able to write to you as often as before but I sure haven't forgotten you. Now that I have the chance I'm wishing you a "Happy 2025 New Year!" and also a belated 2024 Merry Christmas! You were in my thoughts, and I wanted to send you Season's Greetings on the correct days, I finally now have the chance.

I especially hope your health keeps on getting better and better in 2025.

I've read that you gave up the sauce - as a result has your health improved? Are you feeling better? The key to staying off the sauce, as you well know, is to have something else that's interesting/fun/fullfilling to do to pass the time. Fortunately your writing, photography, and travel nicely fill that slot. Still, from back in your drinking days, I'll never forget those photos of you inside some roadside bar in South Africa, the one where it's just you and a bunch of happy, smiling, South Africans drinking together. I especially liked from that series the photo you took of the heavyset black gal.

Currently I'm writing to you from a café in Sintra, Portugal, where, from a window, I see the base of the tallest cloud-covered mountain (the Moorish castle on top is obscured in the mists) and watch a cold rain continuously falling for the second straight day. Today is an "inside day," there's no point in taking the 45-minute train/metro to Lisbon just to hangout in a café there. I might as well stay here, in this café with the view, and watch The Donald get sworn into office.

God only knows what the next four years will bring us, but, whatever it is, it's bound to be better than the disaster the Biden's presidency has brought to the world, especially to the Ukrainians and Russians. Under Biden it has gotten to the point where, if a nuclear war hasn't started on any given day, I consider it to be a good day. The bar is now set so low, it won't take too much for the next four years to be better than the last four.

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On a personal note: Your writing style is as wonderful as it always has been, and your photography over the last few years, as good as it was, keeps on getting better and better.

I wish you greater Health and much Happiness in 2025 and beyond.

All the best Linh...

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Will women who handle $Trump tradeables be known as $Trumpets?

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