Ladies and Gentlemen!

Ladies and gentlemen! Or, more precisely, my dear Gummi bears, gentlemen and ladies alike! I congratulate you on the New Year!

I wish you happiness! May the new year bring you fresh lessons and achievements, may Gummiberries adorn your dwellings, and may good friends come to your aid in foul weather.

Thank you for being with me this past year! I hope that new meetings, new ideas and new exploits await us! Villains will be punished, and virtue rewarded!

But most important of all, do not forget to remain good people!

With greetings from the enchanted forest, your Parnassian Mockingbird!

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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