<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">On 5 Dec 2018, at 06:23, Stephen Lawton <<a href="mailto:sl@afab.com" class="">sl@afab.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Frankly, any day that's a holiday is good with me. </div></blockquote><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Today is also the present-giving part of Christmas in The Netherlands ("Sinterklaas"). You know, the one with spiced cookies and comical blackface. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David Sedaris does a marvelous take on it: </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJpRLhaSqs&list=PL1509584180218D85" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJpRLhaSqs&list=PL1509584180218D85</a></div><div class="">
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