Eliot is big on greeting cards. I am not. Of course I would feel terrible if I didn’t get one from Eliot on my birthday or Valentine’s Day. If you really think about it, you realize what a big waste of money they are. Five dollars for a card that gets read for exactly five seconds. You spend at least 15 minutes picking it out and the receiver reads it once and then displays it on a mantle for a few days or just throws it on the kitchen table. In either case, the card that meant so much looks like a dusty, faded piece of paper a few weeks later. Then it gets dumped or thrown in a drawer, never to be seen again.

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