<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Hello, affiliate friends!</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">I hope that, despite the freezing cold weather, everyone is having a nice holiday season. It’s been crazy busy for me. Working in retail during this time of year is not for the weak, as I have recently discover. Haha!</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Due to the craziness that I’m sure you are all experiencing at the moment, I thought it might be a good idea to have this Federationist <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>issue be a free-flowing one. If you have something on your mind that you would like to share with your Federation family, please feel free to submit an article about it. Maybe you’re doing something unique or interesting for the holiday. Maybe you’re excited about the upcoming Washington Seminar and you want to write about your first experience. Or, maybe you just want to write a piece about what you got into over the summer. Whatever you choose to include in this next issue of the Federationist is fine. Articles should be submitted no later than 5PM on Friday, January 13th. Please be sure to send all submissions to me at editor.fedct@gmail.com.</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Best regards,</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2">Bri</span></p><br><div dir="ltr">Brianna Rigsbee<div>She/her/hers</div><div>Executive Editor | The Federationist in Connecticut</div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Federationist Email: editor.fedct@gmail.com</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Personal email: bri.rigsbee96@gmail.com</span><div>Direct phone: (203) 751-0199</div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;">“You can’t fly unless you let yourself fall.”</span></div></div></div></body></html>