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So, if someone is trying to make new friends and experience new things, where should she start?

A New Year has begun. I have seen so many that they scarcely have any significance to me anymore, although perhaps I should savor the ones that remain, as my mortal life draws near.

Are you truly joyous that a New Year has begun? Or do you feel the weight of time bearing down on your shoulders? These are things I have never considered before, I fear.

Is it acceptable to go to the upcoming ball alone?

I should very much like to go.

So.. I just had a conversation with Hermey the elf about modern dental practices and whether or not the dentists here in town are any good. If this were high school I'd be pretty sure I had five too many jello shots, but since I haven't had a drink in days, I'm going to assume this is Storybrooke's idea of a Christmas card brought to life.

But hey, if someone sees Santa around, let me know. I have a few choice words for him about Christmas of 1993. Seriously though, does anyone think he's going to show up now? Because that actually might be amazing.

And this whole ball thing... is this a legitimate fairy tale type of ball or what? Having been to different kinds of formal functions over the years, I kind of want to get it straight before I make a huge faux pas of some kind. The last time I did that at a formal affair it ended up with an ambassador in tears and his wife wanting her bodyguards to throw me out a window. Good times.

I was gone for what feels like days...

And now I am back. This is quite strange.

I kind of missed this place.

I've never not been home for Christmas.

I can't decide if I'm going to go to that ball. Is anyone else going alone?

I'd need to find a dress.

Mae govannen; Elen sila lumenn omentilmo.

I am Arwen, daughter of Elrond, late of Imladris. I know not how I have come to be here, although those who have greeted me have been very kind indeed. This world is not the world I remember, and I despair for the fate of mine.

Tell me, do you know of the fate of my beloved, or of those who comprised his company? Know you whether or not Frodo accomplished his quest to Orodruin, or whether the world was swallowed by the Darkness in the East?

So many lives hang on the balance, and I would not be sundered from my home at such a time.