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I opened my email this morning to a flood of birthday wishes. Thank you, everyone!
I've decided that's it's wonderful to be forty-nine for the first time. Not only that, but, since it's a whole new year, it's going to be a good one. It's aleady going in the right direction.

What I'm super-amazingly-pleased about is my birthday presents. I don't always get given presents and I have already been given some really lovely ones: books and dinners and time with people who matter to me.