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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

29/5/2015

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Good morning, Readers!

It'a rare Friday post!

Today happens to be a very special day.  Why?  Well...
Mum,

You have always been there for me.  I know I wasn't the easiest child.  No, I didn't party, and I didn't get drunk or do drugs at all, but I was a loner and depressed and I know I worried you a lot.  And then there were all those times I ran out into the scrub bare foot... You were right to get mad at me about that.  It's a wonder I'm still alive really.

FYI kids, don't go running through the Australian scrub with no shoes on.  There are snakes and spiders that can kill you quick smart.

Whenever I did anything creative, you always treated it like it was something special, even when it was utter crap.  When I started sharing my writing, you patiently listened to me reading out the first idiotic attempts at a story.  You smiled and told me it was wonderful.

You lied.  It wasn't.  But I appreciate it all the same.

Without your support I would never have felt confident enough to embark on this ridiculous quest of trying to become a full-time novelist.

Even now, when I'm a woman grown, I still love to hear you exclaim 'It's wonderful!'  Even if I don't think it is.  Even now, when I'm a woman grown, you there with your invisible pompoms cheering me on.

It means the world to me.

All those attempts you made to help me through a difficult adolescence, all those small praises, all the hugs and the giggles, the talks and the silences together mean the world to me.  I would not be here, and this happy, and this determined (bloody-minded?) without you.

I owe you the world.

I love you so much, and I am so grateful.

Someone upstairs did something right when they decided to put you in the world.

Happy Birthday, Mum.

I love you.

Sonia.
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Jonas
29/5/2015 02:53:46 am

Happy Birthday!

Here I thought you were writing about me.... :p

Well, your mom and I share our birthday with some other awesome people. Bob Hope, JFK and Mark Sheppard. So, I think May 29 is a pretty rad-tastic day!

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29/5/2015 04:22:03 am

Eee! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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