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"I turn 30 this weekend. To be exact, I turn 30 next weekend (June 26, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a Cancer), but I&amp;amp;#8217;m at a wedding on my real birthday so I&amp;amp;#8217;m celebrating this weekend. My family and two best friends are coming in from Canada&amp;amp;#8212;we&amp;amp;#8217;re doing a dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, preceded by a night of festivities at a Lower East Side watering hole. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if I ever imagined myself at 30, so it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to say if I ever imagined myself being 30 and single.My friends and me (for the most part--the dog, Lionel, doesn&amp;#x27;t really care for me) approximately one year ago. I have to say, I&amp;amp;#8217;m completely excited and not at all depressed about the prospect of the big 3-0. Every year since I graduated has gotten progressively better and despite my ability to do slightly fewer pushups and need to eat slightly fewer tacos in bed, things are looking up. Especially for this weekend. My friends Marques and Patrick arrive tonight, and after I catch up on their travel adventures (Patrick has the travel acumen of an infant&amp;amp;#8212;he literally needs someone else to bring his passport; also, one time he was bitten by a monkey and got a disease), we&amp;amp;#8217;ll eat dinner and hit the town. I will watch Patrick&amp;amp;#8217;s drinks because he has little to no self-control, and Marques will watch mine, because he is reliable like that, and is generally the wise owl of our group. When it comes to women, there&amp;amp;#8217;s also no one else I&amp;amp;#8217;d rather have with me. Marques has an amazing girlfriend, and Patrick and I have completely different taste in women (he likes exotic girls and femme fatales; I like the athletic girls next door). The two of them keep me in check when I&amp;amp;#8217;m on the make, acting as my editors, sounding boards and wingmen. I think guys and girls are very similar in this one social aspect: When it comes to birthdays, breakups and benders, we want to be surrounded by our respective besties. I am extremely grateful that my friends are making the trip&amp;amp;#8212;I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t ask for a better gift (except for a pony&amp;amp;#8212;I have always wanted a pony&amp;amp;#8212;hint hint, Marques). I&amp;amp;#8217;m turning 30 this weekend, and I could not be more excited. Who would you most like to celebrate your birthday with? Do your friends help you meet guys? More on Friends at Glamour.com Do or Don&amp;amp;#8217;t: The Super-Quick, Intense Courtship Do You Get Stuck On a Certain Type of Guy? Have You Ever Gotten an Explanation from an Ex&amp;amp;#8217;s Friend? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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