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38 THE RURAL VOICE
NOTEBOOK
A
t Christmas I like to feel
special. I want to be seen
as special and I want to be
treated special. Christmas is the one
time of the year when I don't want to
be just one of the herd.
Which bring me to Christmas
letters. I love the personal touch —
even the hastily scribbled note is quite
acceptable to me. What I can't stand
and what I have cried over is the form
letter. Form letters that list the births,
deaths, marriages, and accomplish-
ments of people that I don't even
know. Form letters that one of my
sons refers to as "the gag and puke
letters." How special can you feel
when you receive something like that?
Not very. So I retaliated and wrote
one myself.
Dear Friends: I in turn wish to
share some of the momentous events
in my life with you. I have been to the
city, to a dental surgeon, 22 times in
the past year. This has set both myself
and everyone I know and some whom
I don't to wondering whether the sur-
geon and I have a "thing" going. A
dentist's chair seems like an unusual
setting, but in these times one never
knows! I have also been to an eye guy
who informs me I am his for the next
six months and an ear and nose fellow
who says I'm coming back and to a
neurologist who hopes I don't.
Supervising all these men and
listing their names on paper to make it
look proper is my family physician,
whom I also see quite often.
Plus, I have this husband who
comes home every night, that's 365
times a year, and I'm getting
Someone
Special
by
Coralie
Adams
exhausted. My calendar is simply a
mess. Oh yes, and don't let me forget
to tell you about my husband's friend-
ly chiropractor, whom my husband, if
you will believe, dragged me to. I'm
wondering if he is trying to give me a
message, or away.
My husband, of course, still has
his shop and kindly took my job as
well, thus freeing me to handle all this
excitement. As well, my husband
himself has a bi-weekly encounter
with the chiropractor. You can see
that it has been an exciting "man -
filled" year for me. However, at this
point in time, and possibly several
points later, I am considering the
advisability of a daily dose of Geritol.
Another thing you may not know.
My three little boys grew up. And to
add insult to injury, they up and left
home. The eldest is doing quite well,
thank you. The second one isn't too
sure what he is doing and I certainly
don't know. The third one may know
what he is doing, but if he does he's
not telling. These three young men
have kept me in a perpetual state of
hope, fear, wonderment, fury, love,
more fury, despair, panic, and general
emotional upheaval for more years
than I will even admit to being.
Well, that's it. My form Christmas
letter. Please don't force me to send
you one. Write me a note, on toilet
tissue if you wish, but send it to me
only. I want to be someone special to
you. Worth that little extra. It is
Christmas and I love you. Love is the
greatest gift that we can give one to
the other. And it should be for real,
not a copy, for that someone special.0