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get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers. Did you have a good birthday, Maddie? I asked. Yeah,

I guess so. It was fun. That was an awfully hesitant way to describe the party I'd thrown for my little girl.

We'd gotten her ears pierced by our pediatrician in the morning, which, for the record,

I still thought 12 was way too young for earrings.

But apparently everyone at school had them, so what could I do?

Afterwards, we'd met up with her friends at a bowling alley, and then I'd taken everyone out for

ice cream at a build-your-own Sunday bar.

And to top all of that off, I ordered pizza from her favorite pizza place for dinner.

Still, I knew why she might be feeling a little sulky.

You just guess so?

She looked up from her slice of pizza, blast her to grin on her face, and said,

It was a lot of fun, Dad. Thank you.

The grin faded the second she looked back down at her food.

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