EoFF...

**Laddy** · 12-22-2009, 06:07 AM

I know Christmas is here in three days, for America anyways, so I would like to give you a heartfelt message of thanks.

I have visited this site for three years now, I registered in October of 2006. I still can't believe it's been that long. I knew this place was special, and while we've had some jerks in the past I would like to recognize all of you for your kindness and friendliness towards me, a lowely kid of annoying flamboyancy, and for people who have never met me to invest time to get to know and befriend me is something one rarely find, especially on the internet.

Many forums are filled with hostility and cruelty, where the more powerful members' opinions are pillars that must be obeyed; no such case here. I would like to thank you with the upmost sincerity and genuinity, for this place is very special to me. This is a Christmas present I could never buy. It's not the website, it can burn in hell if need be (though it is fantastic), it's you, the people of EoFF. For putting up with me and taking the time to get to know me on a personal level is something few people outside of this place have invested to the degree you guys have. For that, I would like to express my gratitude. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Kwanzaa to all of you, and may you all be blessed.

Happy Holidays EoFF, one of the few gifts that keep on giving.

Stay gold.

**Shlup** · 12-22-2009, 07:50 AM

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**Christmas** · 12-22-2009, 08:17 AM

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.