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| What would I do for Carol’s 50th birthday? It was __1__ that she didn't want a party, certainly not a surprise party (that was an agreement at our marriage). "How about a small dinner with __2__?" I asked. "No," she said, “I hate being the center of __3__." Still, the milestone had to be marked. I wasn’t going to let her get away with a Stouffer's frozen dinner and a movie video, and this was all she said she wanted. I thought and thought, and __4__ making my decision, I sent a letter to her friends, asking them for photos, poems, and letters. "Carol doesn't __5__ a party in person…but I'm hoping to give her a party in a book." I bought an album with a friend’s advice, and what I wanted __6__. For a few minutes at the end of every workday, I would pull out the marking pens and make up the __7__, Carol's. Photos of her in junior high, pictures of us with the boys, original songs, notes, cards, and poems. It made me __8__ for all the years we had had together. The __9__ was more than the album. It was the friendship and love she had given to me and to our kids and to all her friends and family. You could __10__ it on every page. I wrapped it up and __11__ it home. "Happy birthday, sweetie," I said. "It's not a frozen dinner or a video, but it's what you deserve." She cried. She doesn't __12__ like to cry, but I think she likes the book. She's said so many times. And every time I remind her that putting it together was a gift to me. | ||||
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