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No Birthday Acknowledgement

No Birthday Acknowledgement... From thee... eldest daughter, who need not brood, nor does padre whoosh to stir loess hood family feud (hence an attempt merely to convey melancholic mood). Profound contrast extant between your high achieving life a wonderful hit parade on the go compared tummy mellow existence, yes rather staid, now devoid of any parental responsibility since years back, ye bade farewell to yours truly (perhaps forever), atop a jade did apex inverse to my nadir paid with ignoble deeds soul limb lee, dissimilar to thee, a young vibrant woman, unafraid to take life by the (figurative) horns, owning free choice (linkedin, nsync, prevalent...) with autonomy swayed independent lass not succor tubby paid tummy, nor does this "sir" ask (delayed by one day) for thee to "FAKE" express sing nonexistent affection, this decision...opting to evade papa, who must accept such choice, asper his first born, fortunately UNLIKE me she earned top notch grade nonetheless, this dada before he gets laid to rest (actually most likely cremated), whose ashes tubby scattered across favorite sites, yourself and Shana Punim played, which wistful nostalgia plucks heartstrings rubbing raw thy psyche, who cannot trade past concupiscent transgressions (emotionally turbulent waters I did wade), and no intent to telephone and invade, sans audiologically your ear space, this paternal, essential, and critical need my psyche weighed, lamented, and encumbered grief, nonetheless proud, thee "star student" made herself whip smart by dogged academic pursuit in tandem with ardent biological bone a fide exemplary filleted (within chromosomal dom) mignon, similar, when Semitic forebears risked frolicking under shade of night - countless elapsed generations aid ding random genetic dice throw begetting Eden Liat, whose irrepressible atavistic feral guaranteeing immortality obeyed viz, call of the wild indomitable animalistic hankering impossible to evade, these genealogical ancestors actions unknowingly, unstintingly, and unwittingly helped forge, craft, and affect every blade of grass, and yoked, (a chicken and egg thing) hereditary survival of fittest present day unchoreographed masquerade.

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