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‘To celebrate birthdays is to celebrate life’

‘To celebrate birthdays is to celebrate life’

Life can feel pretty good if you’re a bit morbid about it

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Tiffany Philippou
Jun 22, 2022
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Hello if you’re new here, and hello if you’re not! My name is Tiffany, and I turned 34 two weeks ago. Here’s what I wrote on the day. 

My hesitancy to celebrate my birthday throughout my twenties had come from a mix of social anxiety and the memory that it was so soon after my birthday that Richard had died. I also found his birthday, every year, very di…

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