Thanks everyone, for your help so far. AXO Alum, thank you for the beautiful prose...I think I'll use that. To answer your question, all six incidences were casual, polite mentions (but none the less, humiliating for me). I still don't know how to handle the people who I'm afraid may not have received a card (but haven't yet said anything to my parents about it), so AXO Alum, I await your words on that!
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