ETIQUETTE

Quick Letter of Thanks to a Good Samaritan

Thank you so much for donating your fondue pot (and set of six skewers!) to the homeless shelter. My buddies and I can't wait to walk across town to the food pantry to see if they have any Gruyère and heavy cream.

Tonight when we huddle in an alley with your old fondue pot — it's new to us! — watching the soft bubbles of cheese roll and burp and pop as we warm ourselves around that little can of Sterno (again, thanks), we will really feel like we have it all. You have made three disabled vets and confessed "foodies" very happy.

— GILLIAN KING