"New Year ceremonies are designed to get rid of the past and to welcome the future.

My girl Pearleen:



"You'd be so lean, that blast of January
Would blow you through and through.  Now, my fair'st friend,
I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
Become your time of day."
-  William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV Scene 4 




























 



 

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