Why I Don’t Celebrate My Birthday

Most people think it’s because I hate admitting to getting another year older. I could care less. It’s not like stressing over the clock will make it reverse.

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The reason I don’t like celebrating my birthday goes back to my childhood. Leading up to my fifth birthday, my mother and father were at the breaking point in their marriage. And my mother had threatened to leave again. But this time my father…