每次午餐谈话之后，回到家，我会与我家同学分享部分谈话内容。因为LEON也是我家同学的朋友了。不过，毕竟LEON和我认识更久，也更谈得来。

从第一次平安夜咖啡后，之后又过了不少个平安之夜。而每次平安之夜，只要我在上班，LEON一定打电话到我办公室，请我下楼和他喝一杯平安之夜的咖啡。每次都在同一间咖啡馆。到目前为止，我们已经一起喝过几次平安夜咖啡了。这似乎已经成为LEON生活里的一部分。每次，只要我平安之夜上班的话。

当然，每次LEON在平安之夜下班前来电话，我都会电话知会我家同学，我会晚些回家，我会得到我家同学的同意。

之所以今天此时此刻与朋友们分享这些，是因为男女午餐谁买单的大讨论。

真实地说，我确实没有过多的想法：为什么LEON平安之夜会愿意与我一起喝杯咖啡，而且几年过去了，已然成为他的习惯。我真地没有去想太多的问题。我只是自然地自如地随意地接受他的邀请。我想：来自遥远祖国的友人，我可以做到的也只能这么多了。

我从来没有问过他为什么。我想; 我还是不要问为什么吧。我也没有期盼平安夜咖啡，但是我知道，只要我在多伦多，就会有平安之夜的咖啡。就会有。


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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛“I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't afford expensive presents and they didn't want us to think we weren't as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all sorts of fancy toys under the tree that were supposedly left by Santa Claus.
Dad had lost his job at the gypsum, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each one of us kids out into the desert night one by one.
"Pick out your favorite star", Dad said.
"I like that one!" I said.
Dad grinned, "that's Venus", he said. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant and stars twinkled because their light pulsed.
"I like it anyway" I said.
"What the hell," Dad said. "It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want."
And he gave me Venus.

Venus didn't have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth's, except it was super hot-about 500 degrees or more. "So," Dad said, "when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they'll have to get permission from your descendants first.
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.”
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