Card

It takes a long time to grow young.

~ Pablo Picasso

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So, I got this birthday card for my friend Shanda last year well in advance of her birthday (which is today).  The most amazing part of the whole thing is that I remembered I had it and I was able to find it when her birthday came around.  The most disappointing part of the whole thing is that somehow, over the course of the months during which I possessed the card, the envelope became completed glued to the card.


I sent it to her, anyway.  Inside I wrote the following: 

Remember that, Shanda?  Well, if you don't get a card this year, that will probably be a relief to both of us...