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Merry Christmas! And thank you for reading, too — it's been wonderful to meet so many lovely people this past year from all over the world. Wherever you are, I wish you the happiest of holidays, and the best and brightest in 2009, too. I'll be taking a few days off for the festivities, but I'll return soon to ring in the New Year on automatism! See you then. Photograph by Noëlle Hoeppe scanned from a vintage copy of Marie Claire Maison.