dear sophia,

tonight is your favorite night. i think it became your favorite night because you get to stay up way later than normal. but i also think you have a profound respect for the resurrection.

tonight please hold your candle high and be very proud. you are receiving again the gift of christ’s resurrection. i won’t go into details what all of that means – because i know you are smart and you know it already.

at the stroke of midnight i will be wishing you christos ANESTI and also in response alithos anESTI, christ has risen, truly he has.

tomorrow is feast. i hope you are able to celebrate in some form according to tradition and i hope you at least have one chureki with the egg in the middle (no coin in that one, I’m sure you are disappointed about that!)

please hold in your memory yaya and papou. 143.

love,

dad