Recently I had a big birthday.
Current conditions precluded any elaborate celebration, if such were called for. It was just D and I. We managed a small supermarket cake with full-sized candle plonked in the top. There was no bubbly as by the time we got to the supermarket the appended liquor shop was shut.
Birthday greetings other than from my sisters mostly went to voice-mail as I was struggling with some written submissions (working from home definitely magnifies writer’s block) due the next day and didn’t even notice the calls. Some greetings came via text message.
Apart from family,it is oldest friends who are most likely to remember the day. Is this because birthdays loom larger when we are younger?
I did receive calls or messages from three former girlfriends. Yes, I have some. They were all a long time ago – the last of these relationships came to an end in about 1992. I am in quite frequent contact with the one who lives closest to me.
Oddly, two of these greetings came, not from the ex- in question, but from her husband – though one of them told me she had also tried to call herself. Is this a special version of the ex-boyfriend rule?
The greeting from the last and latest came a few days late by text from the ex- herself. If there is a rule, that seems to confirm it, because in the message she also announced that she had just left her husband.
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