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Sunday, March 15, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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My best birthday ever was when I was 8
That number upending infinity
With 8 friends over that day to play with me
And everybody got along just great

So normal in that place that kept a secret
There where they always kept people away
How it was but somehow not for that one day

Looking back now I can appreciate
How everybody did their best to make it
A good birthday for me or to fake it
So convincingly I would never forget

I had an unusual family
But looking back I am convinced they loved me
Did their best and as for the rest never mind

They said forget about it but not yet
They also said blessed be the ties that bind



Steven Curtis Lance 

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 Reviews of "8"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 16, 2020
Certainly a wonderful birthday that you can't forget. My best birthday was also when I was eight or nine. Our mother paid $10 a month for a year to get us the World Book Encyclopedia my brother and I's only gift for our birthday and Christmas that year. But it was the best gift we ever got. Read it from cover to cover… Every volume. And over the years, read all of the supplements and referred to that encyclopedia often to settle disputes with science and facts. Now, Wikipedia is free to anyone who has the Internet. Google is even more far-reaching, finding obscure literature that has been put on the net. Fabulous.

Ron


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