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"I got together recently with a girlfriend to celebrate her birthday. She didn&amp;#039;t want to do much, preferring to spend a nice evening with her best friend drinking wine and eating dinner. But it was her birthday, after all, and I couldn&amp;#039;t not do something to recognize it. So that day I went to my favorite bakery and picked up 2 chocolate cupcakes \u2013 one for her, one for me. I couldn&amp;#039;t let her eat her birthday cupcake all alone! So I indulged right along with her. I scarfed mine down immediately, and she picked at hers for a while. As I finished my last bite, I realized something was wrong with this picture: It was HER birthday yet it was me who was enjoying the cupcake to almost orgasmic proportions. Shouldn&amp;#039;t it have been her devouring it, not me?  But what could I have done differently? I suppose I could&amp;#039;ve just split one cupcake between the two of us instead of getting two. But it just didn&amp;#039;t seem... I don&amp;#039;t know... festive enough, I guess. It seemed skimpy to just get one cupcake. Plus, I didn&amp;#039;t want my own dieting anxieties getting in the way of her celebration. I wanted her to be able to indulge and not think twice about it. But she couldn&amp;#039;t do that if one of us is eating and the other isn&amp;#039;t! So I wholeheartedly ate mine, too.  On that note... happy birthday to my best friend! And thanks for letting me help you celebrate this year! \u263A "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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