Every single Christmas letter, and even some of the cards with notes, were all that way. We must have either the most honest, or the most boring, friends ... all of yours. Merry Christmas.

That would be the ‘Christ’ in Christmas way, the ‘God’ in Happy Hanukkah way, and the ‘human being’ in Kwanzaa way. “Happy (Merry, a North American locution) Christmas to all and to ...