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That is fantastic! It's even better than the other non-joyous gingerbread men I encountered at a party recently; they were just unhappy-faced. This guy, on the other hand, you can *tell* he's hurting.
(I like how your father thinks, e... when I called my birth mother and told her I was going to graduate school, her first response was a long, drawn-out, Why?)