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Karaoke birthday gang!
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Happy 70th, dad!
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...who burns white sage non-ironically.
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I've known and loved these two since 1994. Thanks for helping me celebrate another year!
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Birthday family portrait.
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We met up at the coffee shop below my apartment and headed out to pick up our rental car. Happy birthday, Gurj!
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Birthday buddies!
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The dreaded birthday ass-vice!
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I love this picture! Thanks for being my boo, boo.
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I laughed so hard I was crying. Thumbs up for BALD SKINHEAD WIG! Awesome present, Doug!
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...the monkey was just excited about all of us! Homeboy was packing!. Boy, thirty years old and still doing stuff like pretending an inflatable monkey's tail is a giant inflatable monkey-penis. I guess my eighth-grade guidance counselor was right about me all along! (At least he was wrong about the whole "ending up in jail" part! Er, at least so far anyway).
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I do know, however, that he would have approved.
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If you would've asked fifteen year-old me what I'd be doing on the night of my thirtieth birthday, I know without a doubt that he wouldn't have even come close to describing this photo.
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...was that I was no longer the only person in the room who looked like a complete and total jackass!
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Behold! The majesty of Art!
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Inspired by Ellen's willingness to use her art to challenge convention, Leigh and I worked together to create a special birthday outfit.
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Here's is our masterpiece! It's called See-Through Birthday Suit at Thirty. The saran-wrap garment serves as a skin-metaphor for identity and reminds us that that the world is new to us each and every morning. Which means, we are reborn a new each and every day.
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I hated it too.
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Meanwhile, Leigh took it upon herself to make me a "designer shirt" of my own.
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Ummm, thanks Meredith.