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Merry Christmas! I find your posts about your parents and family deeply moving. I have been dealing with my father’s illness the last few months and learning more about my grandfather’s and family’s experiences during the Nazi occupation and war. It is amazing how much the past is still within us. I too despair about a future that appears increasingly bleak. My deepest wishes for better health next year and for more joyful, creative and productive moments. Please know that your work makes a difference.

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Merry Christmas, Natalia! And thank you for your kind words and for supporting me. Take care, John

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Dec 23, 2023Liked by JM Smith

I am with you in spirit - your Dad was an inspiration and I can see why his loss hit you so hard. If it helps at all... you are not alone. Many of us are feeling the anxiety about the future that you express here.

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Thanks and Happy Christmas.

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Dec 23, 2023Liked by JM Smith

Wishing you the gift of time this Xmas. Many thanks for your writings, which bring me much pleasure and indeed, calm in my own health-troubled days.

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Thank you so much, Janice. Thank you for reading and Happy Christmas. Take care, John

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It's very hard to feel hope, when we can see what's happening around us. Let's hope for a new year miracle, because that's what it will take. Wishing you a peaceful,safe Christmas John x

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Happy Christmas and thank you for your support. Take care, John

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I will be with you in spirit John. I will raise a glass to you. Best wishes

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You take care and cheers.

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Your writing is always lyrical even when its content brings a tear to my eye. I wish you some health this season to make it to the next year. You have been right all along; your father’s work needs to be finished. I wish you strength to do that.

I am sure I am not the only one to have bought your father’s book from Amazon. Does Amazon reveal to you who the buyers are? I wonder if they would be willing to buy chapters just like Charles Dickens sold his books by chapter??

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Thank you so much LeeAnn for the kind words and wishes. Amazon doesn't let me know who buys the books. As for chapters, I am not sure if they do but will enquire. Take care and Happy Christmas, John.

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