Chilly, but warm heart...

Dear son,

Right now you're someplace warm, dark, and quiet. You're lucky, because here in Hoboken, winter is coming again like it always does. The days keep getting shorter and the weather colder. I can't stand it. Why I've stayed in the northeast I'll never quite understand. You'll be born in the spring, which I think will be good, because you'll hopefully manifest some spring-like attributes in your personality, like hope and energy, which one usually associates with spring. Your mother was born in June, and has a generally sunny disposition. I was born in November, the fall, the time of oncoming gloom. But I'm not so bad once you get to know me.

Love,
Dad