D
ear Shevy,
The best thing about turning 40 is that you can blame everything on a midlife crisis!
Wishing you a wonderful and wacky decade ?
Love,
Rivky
I look up from my birthday card. “Ha, ha,” I say to Rivky, sitting across from me at The Coffee Corner.
We’ve been celebrating each other’s birthdays together since we were in ninth grade, but a week ago, Rivky texted me: R we doing your bday this year, or just staying put with 39? She’d added a million different laughing emojis and I’d immediately sent back: Very funny. Y should I be ashamed to turn 40????
Now, sitting here in this neighborhood café, I’m regretting my bravado. A waiter’s just brought out a cake with sparklers to a beaming little girl across the room, and even though Rivky knows, after all these years of friendship, that I would absolutely kill her if she arranged something like that, I can’t help but look nervously over my shoulder every time the door to the kitchen swings open.
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