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You brighten my life, Ms. Clymer.

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Charlotte, I always admire your eloquence. Thank you for sharing your experiences to help enlighten and inspire us. Happy Birthday ❤️🎂🎉

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Beautiful. Thank you, Charlotte. Happy solar return. We need you.

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This is such a moving and thoughtful essay. Thank you.

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Thank you for this article. ❤️

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Thank you for sharing, Charlotte. We all would do well to reflect on what got us to where we are. Your road has definitely had its struggles. I am thankful you had the support when you needed it, but also thankful you accepted it and grew from it. Happy Birthday, dear!!

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Thank you for this beautiful and thought-provoking essay. And happy birthday!

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"I am very flawed and very human on my own merits, but my god, having climbed this ridiculous mountain, I can see, for hundreds of miles around, the vast collection of my family’s imperfections and grievances and ugliness, and for all the uncertainty and confusion enfleshed before me, I survived."

Breathtakingly beautiful, and hit me like a lightning bolt. This is such a wonderful piece, thank you very much for sharing it.

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Happy birthday. You are such an inspiration and I am so happy that you survived to tell your story, that you thrive so fabulously.

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Happy birthday fellow Libra!! Sending you all good things! ❤️

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Happy and blessed day and year to you. Appreciate your reflexivity, generosity, commitment to growth and kindness, and hope. Sending so much love.

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Been following you for quite sometime. Didn’t know you are from Oklahoma. I live in Shawnee. Happy birthday fellow Okie. 💜

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Happy Birthday and Congratulations. Great piece, I love the way you write. Thanks for being here.

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Damn, Charlotte. This is just so beautiful, powerful. Thank you. And cheers to you on 35 trips around the sun. We are all better having you in this world.

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You are an inspiration. Thank you for your voice which most days keeps me from the abyss.

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This is beautiful, Charlotte. I’m glad you were born.. Happy birthday.❤️

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