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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is fine in and of itself, but if your primary goal is to address rumors someone is spreading about you, I would skip it.  That's not a good reason.[/quote]

Op here. Not going to address the rumors in any way. But over time I’m trying to just make sure that people are aware that I’m a normal person living my life. I’m hoping over the course of years of doing this that people will eventually see that the rumors are untrue. So I wouldn’t of course say, “I’m
Not in prison/rehab as many of you have heard”. I would just be describing that we moved to another state so I could join the faculty of a prestigious University, and hope that over time people will realize I’m not in a long term care facility for people with violent mental illness.

The rumor thing though is only 20% of my motivation though. [/quote]

Honestly though I don't know if a card would really make anyone not believe the rumors, if they were already inclined to do it. It's not like your update would say, "In between getting my PhD and teaching Larla to walk I had a brief stint in the pokey, but the charges were eventually dropped when I went to rehab for two months!"

Do you really think anyone who'd get this card from you isn't in touch with other members of your family who aren't spreading malicious lies? Is this one family member the only one who controls the narrative about how you're doing?

But anyway - I think sending around a card saying how great you're doing is mostly ok. In a normal year, it'd be more than ok. What do we do all these big and hard things for if not to lord them over our family and friends? But maybe this year take a different approach - so many people are suffering, that sending around a newsletter saying how great you're doing might just come across as being a little tone deaf (even if you don't mean it that way).[/quote]

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