So many of our dear friends (“so many” being defined here as “fewer than one”) have requested that we fill you in on our activities of the past year (or “Tweltmont” as they call it in some foreign country I recently read about) that we have decided to accede to your demands and come out peacefully, our hands over our heads. Actually we haven’t received requests so much as blackmail and threats, accompanied by dark hints of bloody violence. But either way, we’re happy to fill you in on the highlights of what we jocularly call our “lives.”

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It’s been another watershed year on McCormick Street, marked by several outbursts of bloody violence, long stretches of tedium, and an incessant weeping that seems to be coming from the pipes that criss-cross our entire house, remnants of our admittedly excessive “monkey bar” period. For those of our friends who remember how puzzled we were by finding large, buttery footprints all over the ceiling of our anteroom, month after month, you’ll be relieved to learn that the mystery has been solved – it was a neighbor.

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It’s that time once again, when the Thompsons take a break from longing for the sweet release of death in order to gather around a festive personal computer and offer you, our dear friends, warm holiday greetings and to fill you in on the monotonous and meaningless minutia of our everyday lives. And vice versa.

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So many of our dear friends keep asking us, “So, what have you been up to for the past year?” or “Who precisely are you again?” that we decided to give you this Holiday Update from the whole Thompson Clan!

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