Re: There IS a Santa Claus, Janet

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Thankyou Joe

Janet

[Guest guest]

I am glad you got to have dinner with your family. I also got to eat

with my family. We have not all been together ever, got to see mom

who I have missed so much. There were about 16 people there and I had

no trouble with fragrances, yea. Usually people don't listen about

fragrances. It was sooo good for my emotional well being. Hope

everyone had a good day.

>

> Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, especially K.C. and Sharon for all

> the selfless work that they do to help all of us. Here is an

> inspiring story for Janet, and ALL Thanksgiving refugees. I

recently

> told my niece that I would never be able to enter her home anymore,

> for the rest of my life, due to the mold reaction that I was

> experiencing from these visits. I thought that I was just

> reinforcing my image of " crazy uncle Joe " , that my family has of

me.

> My father thinks that I have been " brainwashed " by a cult, since I

> say the word " mold " so often.

>

> But, strangely, this year, for the first time in his entire life,

my

> 60 year old brother (I'm 63) announced that Thanksgiving dinner

> would be held in HIS house, not his daughter's house. I think that

> his daughter is still doing most of the cooking, and carrying the

> food across the street to her parent's house. So, I will not have

to

> miss Thanksgiving dinner, after all. It had made me very sad, when

I

> had to tell my niece about my avoidance of her home, as ALL women

> take such news as an accusation that we think that they don't keep

a

> clean home. Her home is immaculate. But I get a mold reaction,

> nevertheless.

>

> No one has said, to me, that Thanksgiving dinner was being moved,

> for my sake, and I don't want to ask, because it feels really great

> to think that my health concerns are the reason for the move. We

ALL

> want to feel loved. I have no illusions about this move changing my

> family's opinion of me. I WILL ALWAYS BE " CRAZY UNCLE JOE " , in

their

> eyes. But, its still nice to feel loved, if only for Thanksgiving

> dinner. Yes, Janet, there IS a Santa Claus. And, sometimes, he

comes

> to thanksgiving dinner. Don't give up hope.

>

> Joe

>