[Gaius]

Happy birthday!

I don't remember my sixteenth at all. It would have been October of my junior year. I didn't have a party because I had no friends at that point. I remember my seventeenth. It was my golden birthday. My dad took me and my sister to the city for a movie. It was a simple day, but it was fun. I also remember my eighteenth. I was a college freshman. My roommate and the few first friends I had made by then filled my desk area with balloons. Last year I turned nineteen, and while I didn't have a party, my significant other, who lived downstate at the time, came to visit the week before it, and we went on a picnic up north.