my moms friend came over today,
he wanted to buy some wine and sigarettes,
I said I go with him since he doesn’t know where the store is. He thanked me, I said
“ with pleasure “
while we were walking to the store we were also talking. He asked me when my birthday was. I told him that it was 31 December. He said that that was such a unique day to be born. I agreed with him. He said I probably get a lot of presents, I nodded and said I had one very big present and that was the memories I made through the year. Because it’s the last day of the years so I did a lot in the year.
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