View From A Prairie Home by Hege Herfindahl

My Birthday

Well, I just turned 75. There. It’s out in the public domain....talking on the phone; laughing and crying and feeling loved and appreciated, which is how a birthday should be celebrated...At the end of the day, we had the salad with cold, but delicious salmon, while the wind threw the rain against our many windows and the candles threw warm light into the darkness of the October night. 

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