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We beg to crave your momentary indulgence in order to discharge a by no means disagreeable obligation which has over the years become more or less established practice, within the circles in which we move, as we approach the terminal period of the year -- calendar, of course, not financial -- in fact, not to put too fine a point on it, week fifty one of the year -- and we would like to submit to you with all appropriate deference, for your expectation, indeed confidence, and indeed one might go so far as to say hope that the aforementioned period may, at the end of the day, when all relevant factors have been taken into consideration , be susceptible of being deemed to be such as to merit a verdict of having been by no means unsatisfactory in its overall outcome and, in the final analysis, to give grounds for being conductive to generating a degree of gratification, relaxation and celebration which will be seen in retrospect to have been significantly higher than the general average. HAPPY CHRISTMAS.