Since it has been many days since we last visited with each other
I thought a recap of those great happenings that have taken place
since we last met would be a good place to start back up.
A quick catch up to get us back together
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“Please, sir, I want some more.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
My Hatters and I attended Dickens on the Strand in Galveston
“Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
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