It's my son's birthday, he's 10 and he came in early this morning

before as soon as I was getting up for this came in with the biggest grin on

his face and he's like jumping up and down, you know, he he's he acts a little

cool now, but he was so excited.

That is wonderful. Tell him, I said, we all said happy birthday, okay?

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