...about what Mouse said today, and how the holidays can really amplify the pain, loneliness, and poverty that so many people experience.
We're doing a gift drive at work and the fifteen year-old girl to whom I was assigned wrote "winter coat" at the top of her wish list. That just about killed me.*
*She also listed "anything Michael Jackson, Rick James, or Barry White" which delighted Santa to no end, because Santa thinks her girl's taste in music is the shizzle dizzle. SANTA'S GONNA BRING IT, BABY!
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