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Merry Hanukkristmas, Soren!

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas! We opened presents at about ten. What did you get? Are you having a good time? I got some nice things, but Christmas is small this year since we’re going to Costa Rica. Aaron got the cats a donut-hole-tunnel. It’s already delightful.

Look how cute it is!! Paris was very interested in the festivities overall. Here’s him next to the charcuterie board.

Hidden behind him: Aaron got Mom a bike, wrapped in blankets.

It’s been alright today. I’ve just been reading Dickens for the past few hours. We celebrated Hanukkah night two yesterday — which I didn’t realize we’d do — because we’re flying before the last day.

And yet we sang the third prayer for night one. Confusing year.

This holiday has bad memories. I try not to think about Christmas most of the season. Hanukkah I celebrate melancholically, but I like it more since nothing bad happened on it (and because it’s not hyper-marketed like the Christmas behemoth). It is eight years now since it happened. It was one of the worst days of my life. I don’t know what it was for you, but I imagine not the best. I hope it was fast and vague. But I try to have fun today anyway, even if I don’t like Christmas anymore. No other day has a charcuterie board.

I’ll think of you tonight during Hanukkah. I wonder if you and Mom still watch the same prayer video we do. I hope we do. I love you.

With love,

Alice

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I was married to a woman for a decade. In 2015, she suddenly abandoned our eldest daughter and withheld our youngest. Soren has been taken from her primary home, mom, sister, and everyone on our side of her family since she was 10. Our purpose is manyfold: we want you to know Soren's story, advacate for Soren in Eugene, OR, champion LGBTQ families to help stop abuse, and help ensure no child lives with: psychological abuse, withholding, abandonment, alienation, or parental kidnap again. These are sides of the same coin.

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