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To: chs68
I don't know what is sadder to me -- the apparent fact that your friends are so insensitive to your feelings, or the apparent fact that you would shut out simple expressions that you experience happiness on a particular day.

There isn't anything to be sad over. I'm Jewish. Everyday for me is a happy day. I get a holiday every week- - it's called Shabbat. We get more holidays than Christians do. I do not need to be wished to be extra happy on a day that doesn't mean anymore to me than the 4th of February. I think that is what you don't understand. December 25th to me is like any other day. It has no special significance. This year, the only reason it has significance is that is on Shabbat. I don't think you are able to deal with the fact that your holiday is meaningless to me.

145 posted on 11/10/2004 10:25:03 AM PST by Bella_Bru (Proud member of La Kosher Nostra and the IZC)
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To: Bella_Bru
Fine.

My holiday is meaningless to you.

I don't believe I have ever suggested at all that any of my holidays should hold any meaning at all for you.

"I do not need to be wished to be extra happy on a day that doesn't mean anymore to me than the 4th of February."

I must have misunderstood (and hereby apologize for so doing) an earlier post of yours in which you said, if memory serves me correctly, that your friends do not wish you a Merry Christmas because for you December 25th means work, Chinese food, and movies.

That rather sounded to me as the expression of someone for whom December 25th is a bit more -- unhappy? depressing? a bit of a downer? -- than February 4th.

I am glad for you (am I allowed to say that to you?) that you have no need to be wished "extra happy" on a day that doesn't mean anything omre to you than February 4th.

Would it then be out of place for me to tell you that I hope that your day today, November 10th, is both Merry and Happy?

Or would you find that too terribly offensive???

150 posted on 11/10/2004 10:45:36 AM PST by chs68
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To: Bella_Bru
At the risk of offending you by wishing you happiness on a day that may (or may not) hold no more significance for you than February 4th, may I wish you a most Happy Veterans Day tomorrow.

My apologies in advance if somehow wising you an extra measure of happiness on a day you might find totally meaningless offends you.

171 posted on 11/10/2004 12:46:29 PM PST by chs68
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