Likes the Actual Me
- Funny
Happy birthday, friend. You know the difference between who I pretend to be and who I actually am, and you like the second one better. That’s rare and I know it.
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- Heartfelt
Happy birthday, friend. You've seen me through every version of myself and somehow kept loving me anyway. The good ones. The embarrassing ones. The ones I'm still trying to walk away from. That is the rarest kind of grace, and I don't take it for granted. Today the celebration is yours. The friendship is forever. The drinks are on me.
- Funny
Happy birthday, friend. I've known you long enough to have blackmail material, but I'm keeping it in reserve for a more important occasion. Today we just celebrate.
- Funny
Forty, my friend. This is the decade where you fully, publicly stop caring what the wrong people think. The nonsense falls away. The good stuff stays. And what's left is you , the actual version , which is somehow even better than I thought when we were twenty and thought we had it figured out. Happy 40th. Long may we embarrass ourselves only on our own terms.
- Heartfelt
Happy birthday, friend. Some people you meet. Some people you recognize. You were the recognizing kind, and I've been grateful ever since.