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Paige Evers's avatar

Happy birthday! 🎈🎁🎉 Thank you for sharing your pages from past birthdays. They are beautiful! All the best to you for your new decade!

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Terri’s Nature Center's avatar

Have a very happy birthday! Hope you enjoy being 50! I have enjoyed it and wish I had sketchbook pages to capture my own memories and feelings so your illustrations are inspiring and motivating to start.

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Teresa Barroso's avatar

Happy birthday Samantha ✨️

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Joan Smeraski's avatar

Happy birthday from a fellow May birthday girl. And yes, I feel as young as a girl at (gulp!) 69 this year. Wishing you many blessings as you enjoy your milestone birthday.

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DIane's avatar

Hope you had a woderful birthday - thank you for sharing your gifts...

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Jamie's avatar

Happy Birthday to you...and me! I celebrated my May 24th bday yesterday too, ha ha. I also love celebrating this time of year with the exception of allergies ;-) I hope you had a great celebration!

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Diane Galvan's avatar

Happy Birthday Samantha - today is my birthday as well! : )

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Karen Goss's avatar

Wishing you all good wishes on your birthday and a year ahead of many treasurable memories.

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Eva Ellis's avatar

Happiest of Birthdays, Sam! Your reflections and your journal pages are heart felt and lovely.

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K_L_Elsayed's avatar

Happy Birthday and many more happy, healthy, & blessed ones to come.

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Stacy's avatar

Happy Birthday, Sam!!

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Diane Moline's avatar

Wow! You have just described so well my own feelings at milestone birthdays…and I’ve had a few more than you. I truly have a love-hate relationship with the Milestones for the conflicting reasons that are probably obvious and about which you waxed so eloquently. As a fellow May birthday girl, I send a happy one to you. And, actually, the 40s and 50s were the best, after getting over the milestone entry point for each.

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Elizabeth Wooley's avatar

Happy Birthday! You are my sketchbook hero. Doing my dailies is the centerpiece of the day. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Christopher Northam's avatar

Happy Birthday Samantha! And thank you for sharing your insights and beautiful drawings!

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Daniel's avatar

A very happy birthday to you, Samantha! I hit this milestone recently, too, and I completely concur with you about the passage of time. Sometimes it feels like we’re on a runaway mine car!

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