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My sister was born on the 23rd of December and luckily she never had to face those things. In our family a birthday is a thing to be noted. We always have dinner on the Sunday before the person's birthday to celebrate. We eat his/her favourite food and have his/her favourite type of birthday cake. January is the only month in which we do not have at least one birthday.
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Funny thing in my family, birthdays are. My mother and brother were born in November. My dad and I both have December birthdays. My dad's brother also had a December birthday (Dec. 24, to be exact.) Every birthday in our house fell between Nov. 2 and Dec. 29.  I didn't mean to say that my parents didn't honour my birthday. In fact, they went out of their way to make sure that I had a party, and separate birthday gifts. It was just my friends, and my aunts and uncles who would give my brother a separate birthday gift, but not me. I felt jipped growing up, but not anymore.
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My wife's (SWMBO) birthday is on December 24. We always go out for dinner the night before, and I make a point of making the present more significant than her Christmas gift. There are two reasons for this - (a) she would kill me if I didn't, and (b) I can't afford a big Christmas present as well ...
My birthday (August 25) is shared by my uncle and my grandmother. Dates are funny things!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Every birthday in our house fell between Nov. 2 and Dec. 29In the Spring, a young man’s fancy turns…  I was apparently due on Christmas day, but got impatient!
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i hope your mother appreciated that! my kids got off to late starts-- my "due date" with my son was October 4th and he was born Nov 3rd-- and no i didn't mis calcuate, or miss a date-- he was 9lbs (almost a full 4k.) and 23 inches long...
my daugter was as bad-- and was induced! 3 weeks after due date-- and even bigger.. 9lbs, 15 oz( more than 4 k.) -- and a full 24 inches long.. but i can't as i had a difficult time of it, i have a nice set of peasant hips-- both were natural, and no screaming or carring on-- and no problems after-- i was up and about after one good night sleep.
but i got tired of being pregant after 7 months, and looked forward to having pregnancy end, and having a baby-- the extra months wait was no fun!
And in my daughters case costly! -- she was expected on dec 26th --St Stephen's day--(boxing day) but wasn't born until the new calendar year-- and we lost claiming her as a tax deduction for a year!
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>>>the extra months wait <<< Yow! Were you late as well? I hope to follow my mother's example. Both my brother and I were born 2 weeks early.
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I have the dubious distinction of having been born on Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday. Don't bother to look it up -- Apr. 20, 1939. And in connection with the odds of people having the same birthday, one of my brothers was born on my 8th birthday and on the same day my aunt gave birth to a daughter. That cousin, improbably, always resembled me; my brother is about as unlike me as possible.
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BobYB observed: I have the dubious distinction of having been born on Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.
Have you always had an almost uncontrollable urge to grow a toothbrush moustache, talk very loudly in beer halls and set up holiday camps in Poland?
And, later on comments: That cousin, improbably, always resembled me; my brother is about as unlike me as possible.
But that probably means ... nah, let's not go there.
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About 20 years ago, I was studying at the University of Konstanz in West Germany. Konstanz is a peninsula on, you guessed it, Lake Constance. On the "lower sea" is the Insel Reichenau, renowned for its delicious, and highly toxic, produce. At the university I met a student, Peter. Peter had grown up on his fathers small farm on Reichenau, and was so naive, you'd have thought he'd never left there. Because of that, I named him Inselpeter (inzel payter). I never called him that and only one other person even knew about it. I still have dreams that I am back in Konstanz after a long time away. The name is a kind of souvenir.
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"Scribbler" is descriptive (alas) of my penmanship and, simultaneously, evocative of my aspirations. An aspiration to "scribbling", I hasten to add, does not reach to "WRITING" ( i.e. LITERATURE in any of its noble manifestations), but seeks merely a more scherzando form of verbal communication, one that may, on occasion, (and for a purpose) be full of bombast, humbug or conceit, or one that may stoop to conquer petty grievances or address trivial concerns, or may do whatever else my Muse may suggest to aMuse self, or beMuse, provoke, annoy or otherwise stimulate and entertain, others.
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