Two Happy Birthdays!

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It's convenient that they're on the same day! First, to Kouryou-chan, who finishes her 10th orbit around an unremarkable star in the unfashionable third spiral arm, but who is nonetheless a remarkable kid who continues to blow my mind with her sense of humor and joie de vivre.

Another exemplar of joie de vivre is shemayazi, who also completes another orbit, but it would be unfashionable to say which one. She is nonetheless one of the most wonderful women I know, and of whom I certainly don't see enough.