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A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

A Bag Of Apples, A Pot Of Homemade Jam, A Scribbled Note, A Bunch Of Golden Flowers, A Coloured Pebble, A Box Of Seedlings, An Empty Scent Bottle For The Children. . . . Who Needs Diamonds And Van-delivered Bouquets?

Cats Can Work Out Mathematically The Exact Place To Sit That Will Cause Most Inconvenience.

You Took Me To Adventure And To Love. We Two Have Shared Great Joy And Great Sorrow. And Now I Stand At The Gate Of The Paddock Watching You Run In An Ecstasy Of Freedom, Knowing You Will Return To Stand Quietly, Loyally, Beside Me.

We Expect Too Much At Christmas. It's Got To Be Magical. It's Got To Go Right. Feasting. Fun. The Perfect Present. All That Anticipation. Take It Easy. Love's The Thing. The Rest Is Tinsel.