Another year older, another year wiser. Happy birthday, Cassius!

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Happy Birthday to HollyGraves! Learn more about HollyGraves and say happy birthday on HollyGraves's timeline: HollyGraves
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Happy Birthday HollyGraves
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Happy birthday Holly, and thanks for helping manage the Facebook page!
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Happy Birthday to Cyrano! Learn more about Cyrano and say happy birthday on Cyrano's timeline: Cyrano
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Happy birthday Holly, and thanks for helping manage the Facebook page!
Thanks Cassius!
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Happy Birthday HollyGraves
Thanks for the lovely birthday card, Kalosyni!
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Happy Birthday Cyrano
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Thank you very much, Kalosyni. Very kind of you to send me birthday greetings on my birthdate, October 9.
I am so proud to share that birthdate with John Lennon, Camille Saint-Saens, Alfred Dreyfus, Nikolai Bukharin, Aimee Semple McPherson, Bruce Catton, Alastair Sim, Lee Wiley, Steve McQueen, and many other people of note...
Some ignorant people claim that Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 10. But his mother told him it was the 9th. And Verdi, who lived a very long life (he lived 88 years), always celebrated his birthday on October 9th. -
Good to hear from you Cyrano -- hope you are well!
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I'm sorry I've been absent so long from this the friendliest group I know on the Internet.
But how do I sign off or log out of this website? It seems I used to know how; I believe I have, many months ago, done it a whole number of times.
But now - though I have searched on every page here and opened every logo (and spent over an hour!) - I just can't find how to get the hell out of here.
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Happy Birthday to Joshua! Learn more about Joshua and say happy birthday on Joshua's timeline: Joshua
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I understand we have two significant birthdays today! Happy birthday Joshua and...
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Happy Birthday Joshua !!!
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Thank you both, and Happy Birthday to you as well Kalosyni!
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Happy Birthday, Kalosyni and Joshua!
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(Cicero, On Ends, 2.102)
"I have to admit that these are the sentiments of a good and humane man. But a wise man, and especially a natural scientist, which Epicurus claims to be, should not be thinking that anyone has an anniversary. Can the identical day, once it has occurred, occur time and again? Of course not. A similar day? Not even that, except perhaps after an interval of many thousands of years when all the stars return to their original positions at the same time. It is not the case, then, that anyone has an anniversary. 'But the anniversary of his birth is observed!' I am well aware of that! So be it."
I think that's as close as we are getting to Cicero wishing you a happy birthday.
Have a great birthday, Joshua and Kalosyni!
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He wasn't a barrel of laughs, was he!
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