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Feliz Cumpleanos La Senora Dunning

Feliz cumpleaños la señora Dunning Fifty seven orbitz didst elapse circling with thee around the sun and nary sign ye will collapse anytime soon, I hoop fully reckon untold massages nervously await to cross proper synapse. Foolhardy of me (doubting Thomas) in previous years perhaps spiteful and mean to forego acknowledging anniversary, and thus now cobble feeble poem upon external Lenovo screen October seventeenth two thousand nineteen completing LVIII action packed laps, ye always proactive plus with time management keen maximizing opportunities since... conception biologically rendered thee inheriting at least one gene bestowing positive risk taking. Noble emotional growth beyond comfort zone bred confidence, faith, integrity... evident apparent as yar deux daughters each hone exemplary traits while transient mortality doth loan finite time versus... who every so often doth moan, when hindsight admits thyself aimless rolling stone, hence brother, where (prone to bouts of panic) art thou gathered no moss only recently running with figurative ball to zee terminating end zone. Aghast at alienating self toward kith and kin reflect how yours truly felt indigent, inept, inferior... awash with shame - head bowed evoked lame urchin cannot shrug off (like Atlas bearing weight (analogous to Alice in chains) of heavens on his shoulders, a bird din given to him as punishment by Zeus. Hindsight ratcheting up scores orbitz clearly identifies blitzkrieg when with fits and starts attests I did not consume ample powder milk biscuits raw bits how sticktoitiveness absent without leave tossed hands up in despair calling quits to most any endeavor barely started and evinced submissive "scapegoat" an easy target never applied wits, nor put up physical mitts nor mental dukes (mine) to thwart verbal hits, and mainly recall always looking for exits. At nadir of prepubescent woe vaguely remember feeling unable/ unwilling to live, lo I stymied, stifled, stagnated sabotaged potential to grow to present accept indelible staid development, especially skinny legs well nigh two feet below permanent reminder no manly anatomical musculature evident, but also pointless to crow and caw myself out, now oh null lee in rhyming poe whit tree heading toward wizard of oz in toto shuffling along boulevard of broken like Yiddish hobo, i.e. schlemiel far from madding crowd lest scathingly vituperative beating hasty retreat back tummy Alamo.

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