We can't even begin to say how sad it made us to read these terrible words:

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Welcome to the final Note of 2004.

No! Where will we go for our daily dose of obvious references that look just obscure enough to make the thousands of people who get them feel clever, of shameless pleas for social assistance from Mike Feldman, of chummy nicknames for every reporter in town who the ABC crew decides is cool enough to sit at their lunch table? Vacation is for pussies, Halperin. -- "Joe Klein"

LAST NOTE! [ABCNews.com]