Happy Birthday

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​This old gal…

Kicked off birthday week…at the cinema…was drawn to the Flashback Film event …featuring movies from back in the good old days…Pillow Talk…Murder on the Orient Express…Alfred Hitcock’s…The Birds…

High School me loved The Birds…watched it many times on the console TV…went with friends to a showing at the high school…forgot it had a plot to be honest…a love story of sorts…but remembered the creepiness of the bird attacks…and the swooniness…of that ever so studly leading man…

Flashbacks of those days…brings flashbacks…of over a half century of birthdays…celebrated before…the angel food cake drizzled in colored powered sugar frosting…the sugar candy Happy Birthday sinking into the gooey stickiness on top…

Birthday gifts…bought during Christmas shopping…hidden in the attic…til the end of January…the effort put into making little me feel special…on her special day…is so very much appreciated…that mother of hers…making them simple…special…surprisingly…stress free…

So thank you…mother of mine…for creating memories of birthdays…that are safe…and happy…and worth…the flashbacks…
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And little me…would agree…