Ellie's first winter holiday was uneventful, and when she returned to her dormitory on the day before classes started she was surprised to find a small note on her door. "Thank you," the note said. It was signed "Susan." It was dated the day that Ellie had left after finals. Ellie was totally confused. She didn't know a Susan. Believing that the letter had been delivered to her by mistake, Ellie put the note on her desk and forgot about it.

　　About a half an hour before she was getting ready to head out for dinner, there was a knock at Ellie's door. There, standing in the hall was a woman Ellie didn't recognize. "I'm Susan," she said. "I wanted to thank you in person but you'd already left before I finished my finals."

　　"Are you sure it's me you're looking for?" asked Ellie. Susan asked if she could come in and explain.

　　It seemed that Susan had been facing the same dilemma that Ellie had been that first night of Chanukah. She really didn't want to light her candles either. Not because she was packing or was heading home, but because her older sister Hannah had been killed by a drunk driver ten months earlier, and this was the first year that she'd have to light the candles alone. The sisters had always taken turns lighting the first candle and this wasn't Susan's year. She just couldn't bring herself to take her sister's place, it was just too painful to even think about Chanukah without Hannah and she had decided on passing over the entire holiday.

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