I HOPE this update finds you in good health. Since I last wrote to you, I sadly lost my mother. She had been living with Alzheimer’s Disease for several years. I know that many of you understand what

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring, Is the carol that you sing, Right within your heart IT is a song we have loved for decad