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Well, hello and welcome to the special Thanksgiving edition of the Dividendon Cafe.

It is Wednesday.

Today is actually November 22nd, 2003. Tomorrow, of course, is Thanksgiving. But, you know, I was thinking as I was writing, there was something about that date that sounded familiar. And as someone who was obsessed with the JFK assassination when I was in high school, when the Oliver Stone movie was coming out.

I think it came out a year after I graduated high school actually, or maybe my senior year

itself.

But the date of November 22nd sounds familiar because it was 60 years ago today that

President Kennedy was assassinated.

I will add that he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

It also is a day that one of my heroes and people who has most influenced me throughout my life who died a decade before I was born, C.S. Lewis also passed away

November 22nd, 1963, the same day the President Kennedy was tragically killed. So interesting

day of history today, but also just a good day for us to not do a full dividend cafe, to not

unpack the latest and greatest from the Fed

and in the markets and in the economy and with dividend growth and all the different things that I

think make for healthy and helpful material week by week in the dividend cafe. We go into this

kind of long weekend holiday.

Technically, the market's open a few hours Friday morning,

but I promise you that would be news to most traders on Wall Street,

who will be nowhere near their desks on Friday morning.

This kind of long weekend, I think, is appropriate in the sense of representing an annual time of

gratitude and contemplation, reflection for Thanksgiving, which is what I want to do here now.

And then also that kind of entry level into the real holiday season.

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