For my many friends on the Lonely Hearts Forum:
May the holidays and new year bring you happiness. If you are looking for that special someone, I hope that this year, you find them. If you have a special someone in your life already, you have a treasure.
Remember, that good things happen in the most unexpected of circumstances: Live your life with joy, and help those in need, and you will be blessed.
Look around you. There are many people who would treasure you- perhaps you just do not see them. Wonderful gifts can come in plain wrappings.
To borrow a few words from a better writer than I am:
Be not the first by which the new is tried; nor yet the last. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; and this, above all: To Thine Own Self Be True......