A cup of coffee with my mom.

Hi, Mom.

Hi there.

How you doing?

I'm great. How you doing?

Are you great? I'm greater than you are.

How great thou art.

Well, I don't have a stiff neck, but you do. I'm doing my exercises. I'm praying for

a Christmas miracle, a little more mobility every day now. Oh, that's good. I'll tell you,

physical therapy is almost a miracle. It's helped dad. His isn't perfect, but every day it seems

a little bit better. And, and well i hope you're better soon

anyway look i promised chuck we wouldn't spend a lot of time talking about infirmaries aches

pains pilliatories various disappointments and so forth he was very disappointed i don't know

if he told you but our thanksgiving episode wasn't very Thanksgiving-e.

So he asked if I could somehow control shape and otherwise guide the conversation into something Christmasy, hence the outfit.

You knocked that out of the park for sure.

Yeah, that's really very noticeable.

And I like your hat, Chuck.

Did you get a haircut, Chuck, or is it under the hat?

Sure looks like it, doesn't it?

Sure does.

That's a no.

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