What I want on my birthday (swunked from sartorias - never let a good idea go to waste)

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So, tomorrow I turn 46.

Here is my wish, for anyone dropping by, who has a few extra seconds: you share with me some special memory. This was sartorias' suggestion, which I cannot improve upon: I know how busy people are. It doesn't have to be long. One good thing about having a brain wired for image is that the briefest reference to, say, "The day i saw a triple rainbow" brings immediately to mind the day when I was ten that I saw a triple rainbow. There I am on my bike, riding downhill as fast as I can because the biggest rainbow ends, so clearly, right where Linda C lives, at the bottom of the hill below school, where two streets converge...the light is silvery-gray, and smells of wet pavement and grass, there are three levels of clouds and all of them ragged. How I loved the magic of that day--even if the end of the rainbow kept moving. But somehow it was better to never find the end.

And incidentally: happy birthday to bdunbar and to the lovely purple_mirie!

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Happy Birthday!

One time when I was a very young child, my family was friends with the family across the street, and we children would exchange Christmas gifts. One year, I and the girl gave each other the same gift (I can't remember what it was, I think it was a doll), and my brother and the older boy gave each the same gift, which were rubber bats. We always thought it was so crazy, but just this past year, I was talking to my husband (who also lived his early years in the same small town I grew up in), and he said he also had one of those bats, and he remembered where he got it too. We then realized there was basically one major place where you got toys like that (back then), and so it was actually not such a crazy coincidence that we all got each other the same toys.

I really like this idea alot, and I can't wait to do it on my birthday!

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For that, thank sartorias. And thank you.