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Letter: A Fitting End to the Old Year

Thursday, January 3, 2013

To the Editor:

Thank you, Dave Barry (“Good Riddance to 2012,” Dec. 30) and thank you, Valley News, for again allowing Barry to send a dreadful year out the door the only possible way — with clever, biting humor! We desperately needed the laughs.

Jim Tonkovich

Wilder

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