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Check off your holiday shopping list with these unique Hylton Center gift options for the person who has everything.

Some of you may remember the old David-Letterman-reads-his-mail skit with the theme song “Letters! Oh, we get letters! We get stacks and stacks of letters! Letters!” Yes, that kind of thing is taking up increasingly precious real estate in my brain, so I feel the need to get some use out of it.

Bringing us goodwill and cheer this holiday season are Hylton Center Arts Partners the Manassas Symphony Orchestra, Prince William Little Theatre, Manassas Chorale, and the Manassas Ballet Theatre.

Sine qua non

The literal translation of that morsel of Latin is “without which not.” An inelegant phrase at best, gibberish at worst. But the real meaning is beautiful: something essential, something necessary, something without which something else would not exist.