Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 6:18:05 AM
From: Tom Pritzker <
To: Gmax <
Subject: you are the best

I am now in Vail. Someone bought

a copy of this week's Globe for Christmas as a to ce. I open it up and there is a photo of you and a story about our dinner with Clinton. If you haven't seen it, it is a stitch. It has Bill sitting between you and Saffron and hitting on both of you.

So, we celebrate another Christmas. My best present was that I got everyone to sign the family agreement. Done. My next best present was that I got a major injection of equity ($100mm) into Reliant from a public company at a valuation of twice what you paid. Done. My next best present was that Superior Bank is settled. Done. All of that happened in the past 3 weeks.

Now for you. If you get freaked out in the days ahead, I am going to be very pissed at you. You are way, way ahead of the game and, thankfully for you, you will continue to be so for many, many

Christmases to come because your 'station' is due to your brains (sometimes your wit) and personality (albeit somewhat 'different').

Presumably all of those improve with age so I shudder to think of your future. Those are my views and tidings for this Christmas.

As to your birthday, I shall lift a glass in your honor tomorrow and utter only the truth: "Happy Birthday and may we share many more". tjp

p.s. where are you from Jan 2-7?