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...Running back to retrieve their forgotten purses from the booth, Michelle wondered, Good Lord, why are birthdays always so hard? Her elbows stuck out as she fought to tie her hair into place, and she knocked into people along the way, distracted and trying to get to their bags before they got stolen. “Excuse me!” On seeing the...

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...her’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave. “Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee—I was a small chap then—and to...

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...ize it, create organizations, open schools, publish holy books, celebrate birthdays, sanctify holy temples and the like, thus destroying any life it ...

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...“So, what do you want to talk about, how many soccer games I’ve missed, or the numbers of birthdays I was too busy to attend?” “None, but I do symp...

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...a’s birthday tomorrow. She loves me very much. She makes me very happy on my birthdays. So I want to make her happy on her birthday. I want to give he... ...don’t even care about their mother’s birthday. They remember about their own birthdays and gifts only. So I will weave a very beautiful sari for you,”...

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...ull of dolls. Most of them were gifts received from her aunts and uncles, on her birthdays. Others were bought by her mother and father, when they too...

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...rd to say that she doesn’t know how old she is! “I’ve had so many double birthdays, I’ve lost count,” were the words re- peated to me. Why do we wi... ...ger, always in protest? Why are we never satisfied? I wish there were no birthdays. P For several days, Kleis and I have sailed, our boat a good f...

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...er.html About serial killers: http://samvak.tripod.com/serialkillers.html B Birthdays Why do we celebrate birthdays? What is it that we are ... ...elebrate this fact? Because it is not the past that is foremost on our minds. Our birthdays are about the future, not about the past. We are celeb... ...to continue forward. We proclaim our potential to further enjoy the gifts of life. Birthdays are expressions of unbridled, blind faith in our own s... ...ate one's future the older one gets. Thus, we are forced into the conclusion that birthdays are about self-delusionally defying death. Birthdays a... ...sionally defying death. Birthdays are about preserving the illusion of immortality. Birthdays are forms of acting out our magical thinking. By celeb...

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...er.html About serial killers: http://samvak.tripod.com/serialkillers.html B Birthdays Why do we celebrate birthdays? What is it that we are ... ...elebrate this fact? Because it is not the past that is foremost on our minds. Our birthdays are about the future, not about the past. We are celeb... ...to continue forward. We proclaim our potential to further enjoy the gifts of life. Birthdays are expressions of unbridled, blind faith in our own s... ...ate one's future the older one gets. Thus, we are forced into the conclusion that birthdays are about self-delusionally defying death. Birthdays a... ...sionally defying death. Birthdays are about preserving the illusion of immortality. Birthdays are forms of acting out our magical thinking. By celeb...

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...and His Family – Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/faq22.html "I hate holidays and birthdays, including my birthday. It is because I hate it wh...

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...rd to say that she doesn’t know how old she is! “I’ve had so many double birthdays, I’ve lost count,” were the words re- peated to me. Why do we wi... ...ger, always in protest? Why are we never satisfied? I wish there were no birthdays. P For several days, Kleis and I have sailed, our boat a good f...

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...hes into promises again. It was all too painfully reminiscent of childhood birthdays. Some casual remark Adelle would toss into a letter would lead...

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...he place of Ernst '08. re- signad. At the meeting the anni- versary of the birthdays of Luther and Schiller, which fell on No- vember 10, was celebrat...

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...bey the children, and are never allowed to sit up to supper, except on their birthdays. The children order them to make jam and jelly and marmalade, a...

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...hat looked in at my door, ‘many happy returns of the day.’ Thereupon a new thought came into my mind, driving its predecessor out, and I began to reca... ...t of paper. I can very well remember being taken out to visit some peach-faced creature in a blue sash, and shoes to correspond, whose life I supposed... ...l tender- ness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow. When shall I disconnect the combined smells of oranges, brown paper, and ... ...oblivion.’ It was found, with a dreadful headache in it, but it didn’t last; for, in the shaming light of next day’s noon, I raised my heavy head in b... ...rthday Magic Lanterns may possibly have been unfortunate, but has certainly been similar. I have an illustrative birthday in my eye: a birthday of my ... ...to add that Flipfield’s great birthday went by the board, and that he was a wreck when I pretended at parting to wish him many happy returns of it. Th... ...returns, we are seized for some moments with a ghastly blitheness, an unnatural levity, as if we were in the first flushed reaction of having undergon... ...tions, and many such, are put on the spur of the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys. The Uncommercial, invited to add another, falte...

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...e which, like the drawings prepared with great secrecy by children for the birthdays of father or mother, is found insufferable by every mortal except...

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...d at all the sights that are free. 30 Some Christmas Stories On two of my birthdays, we have dined on e-la-mode beef, and gone at half-price to the p...

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...lders. “Oh, pshaw,” she said, less peevishly. “I guess we’d better give up birthdays. Much as we can do to keep Christmas nowadays.” “Y ou hadn’t ough...

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...re in a year?’ ‘Three hundred and sixty five,’ said Alice. ‘And how many birthdays have you?’ ‘One.’ ‘And if you take one from three hundred a...