Arriving home from a pretty bad day of work, I found this brightly wrapped parcel sitting at my front door, I put my back back down, and got to work. Inside, a snap back, an awesome post card that /u/pixelles/ wrote a personal message on, and this amazing Blastoise they had hand made just for me.

I put in my "Tell your Santa what you love about Pokemon!" part of the exchange how my dad was in the military, and we moved around a bunch and it was hard to keep friends. After making another new friend, they introduced me to Pokémon, and begged my mom for a copy, I had Blue, he had Red, and we logged a tremendous amount of time on our carts. When the TCG came out, we were playing that too, every weekend at Toys R Us. Now both of us are 30 (well, he is, I'm 29) and we both excited to start the next chapter in Sun and Moon. Pokémon is what made my childhood.

/u/pixelles/, What can I say? You are truly an incredible human being. You took what I had written and articulated incredible gift that I can cherish for years to come. Also some candy, that may or may not have eaten and spoiled my dinner :D

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.