Karen wrote:
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What's worse is when you realize that you didn't have any birthday hijinks, and that the days when you could attempt to rectify that have passed...
Oh, I don't know about that. You can always get a chuckle out of those "Ten Good Things About Getting Old" birthday cards like the ones my younger sister has been sending me for the past decade or so.

And not too many twelvemonths past, my father sent me a birthday card which had Commander Data from ST:TNG on the cover. The outer caption read, "I would not say that you are old."

The inner caption read, "However, if you were an android, you would be broken up into your component parts and sold for salvage."

I love my family.

Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing