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Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a very happy Friday, wishing you a happy and healthy

new year to those who celebrate. Although even if you don't, I guess I can still wish you a happy

and healthy new year, no harm in that. We dropped my oldest child, my son off at college this week,

so I've been feeling a bit of a roller coaster, as anyone who's been

through that understands. I'm not going to write about it this week. I may at some point in the

future, but anyone who's had this experience, I think, probably has a sense that it's been,

it's been a week. It's been a week. I'm feeling some kind of way. But carrying on, as always, in terms of actual breaking news,

you know, we just keep getting this rolling amount of news developments, of motions. I think it's

fascinating. And I do love to see how interested people are in just the way our system works. A lot of it,

of course, is focused on the Trump trials. And one of the silver linings on all of this, no matter which side you're on, if any, and no matter how you're

hoping this comes out, is people are really interested in, and I think learning quite a bit about

the way our criminal justice system works. So I'm here for all of it. I'm here with you. Thanks,

as always for your thoughts, questions, and comments. Keep them coming to letters at cafe.com.

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