Oh hello there and happy holidays! If you're like me or mailbox and inbox are beginning

to fill with the obligatory year and updates from family and friends. Exotic vacations,

fulfilling careers, the accomplishments of so many perfect children. Ah, it is the season.

And so you've sent us some of your favourite holiday newsletters so that we might have some

festive fun. Names and locations have been changed of course. Because if there's one thing I've

learned in all my years, it's that there's always room to read between the lines. And chances are,

it's a wonderful lie. Hi everyone, I'm Ashley Flowers. I'm Holly Lorong. Hey I'm Greg Hess.

And you guys were getting down to the wire. I know, Christmas is around the corner.

Oh, festive! I mean we've really gone through a gauntlet of letters this year. Yeah.

No spoilers for this one, but I'm actually wondering if we're doing this on the wrong

audio check podcast. Like this might be a better fit for crime junkies. Oh okay. So yeah buckle up.

I kind of thought that the one with the woman working in the hedgehog was going to be a park predator

or something. So all of these can relate back to a crime junkie podcast in some way.

Yeah, land management. You must come across a lot of bodies.

It's a wonderful lie.

Dear family and friends, as many of you are aware early 2021,

saw me make the difficult decision to sell our beautiful home on Penobscot Lane.

Art and I had many wonderful years there, but the lockdown made me realize how empty the

house is without him. As much as I loved our home, it's too big for just one person.

With Katie, now VP of marketing at Haynes, down in Winston Salem, she and her family aren't

able to get up to Massachusetts that often. Plus my knees couldn't handle the stairs as well

as they used to. Despite arthroscopic surgery in 2017, I put the house on the market on Valentine's

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