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"Today, the world officially turns 32 A.B. A.B., of course, stands for &amp;quot;After Beyonce&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;so yes, I suppose another way of putting that is to say today is Beyonce&amp;#x27;s 32nd birthday. But I think we all know it all feels bigger than one woman&amp;#x27;s birthday; it&amp;#x27;s a chance to celebrate the fact that we&amp;#x27;ve living in an age in which we&amp;#x27;ve gotten to enjoy all of the moments below. 32) That time she gave the world a succinct way to sum up commitment-phobes, wrapped in a tasty perfect-dance-song shell. 31) That time she and Jay took Blue Ivy to Paris and everything was like Madeline, but chic-er. 30) When she reminded us not to lose your cool if your hair gets caught in a fan in front of 60,000 people (or the metaphor version of that for your own life). 29) That time she made us want to replace every &amp;quot;reach for the moon you&amp;#x27;ll land among the blah blah blah&amp;quot; powder room plaque with a tiny everlasting loop of this: 28) During her stirring Dreamgirls walkout. 27) That time that, in the &amp;quot;Love on Top&amp;quot; video, she did a bang-up impression of that time we busied ourselves dancing and stealing the conductor&amp;#x27;s hat while tipsily waiting on a train. 26) That time she reminded us that, yes, she can do anything, like even Alanis Morissette anything. 25) That time a guy slapped her butt&amp;amp;#8212;we got so mad&amp;amp;#8212;and she barely blinked before being all, I will throw you out. 24) The time she let&amp;amp;#8212;nay, made!&amp;amp;#8212;Kid President kiss her on the cheek. 23) When she reportedly heard H&amp;amp;M was gonna slap retouched versions of her all over their billboards and demanded they restore her curves to their accurate glory. 22) When she reached peak diva saturation at the Grammys. 21) All 8 times she&amp;#x27;s tweeted, which is once for every 1.46 million followers she has (total followers: 11.7 million on Twitter, probs more in real life). 20) Obviously, that time she went aboard with serious altitude. 19) That time she just took a moment to appreciate what matters in life, you know? 18) That time she was all, yeah, ladies, if I have time to make an ultra-classy, ultra-personal baby card, you have time to make an ultra-classy, ultra-personal baby card. Pinterest fainted when it saw this. 17) That time we realized she and Breaking Bad&amp;#x27;s Walter White are the same dern person! 16) When she followed Phoebe&amp;#x27;s DOs and DON&amp;#x27;Ts straight to a blockbuster Super Bowl performance (whether she realized she was doing so or not is besides the point). 15) On Pixie Cut Day, when she was like NBD, just me with an inch of hair. (Of course, I guess it wasn&amp;#x27;t a BD, since she changed it back almost immediately. This is the number-one famous-person luxury I am jealous of.) 14) That time we remembered the song &amp;quot;Work It Out&amp;quot; (and these other throwback tracks). 13) Well, when the &amp;quot;Run the World&amp;quot; video dropped, naturally. 12) That time these amazing Life Is but a Dream moments made us bawl. (It was the first time we saw toddler Blue!) 11) When she admitted that she too continues to use mascara well after it&amp;#x27;s time to replace it. 10) All those times she was like: look silly now, look beautiful later. It&amp;#x27;s fine. 9) That time &amp;quot;Bow Down&amp;quot; made us all fall to the floor, which means we half-listened to instructions anyway. I will never be over the preteen-trophy cover art. Never. EVER. 8) Obviously, when we were treated to the pregnancy reveal that&amp;#x27;s made every VMA-moment, TV-milestone, and personal-life-highlight list in America: 7) That time she started her gorgeous friggin&amp;#x27; Tumblr, a.k.a. the best thing on the Internet ever. 6) When she swung on a swing in Texas. Let this picture be our visual mantra forever. (There&amp;#x27;s more where that came from, BTW.) 5) That time she wrote a love letter to Michelle Obama. Sigh. 4) That time we asked WWBD? (What Would Beyonce Do?) and she answered, loud and clear. 3) That time somebody else asked if she lip-synched (lip-sunk?) the national anthem and she answered, louder and clearer yet. Like, she had to know she was livin&amp;#x27; for the GIFs in that moment, right? 2) We didn&amp;#x27;t have questions to begin with, because of the time we saw this chillingly good vid of her singing &amp;quot;Halo,&amp;quot; acoustic and unfiltered. 1) And finally, that time she taught us how to play the odds, saying: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like to gamble, but if there&amp;#x27;s one thing I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet on, it&amp;#x27;s myself.&amp;quot; And that, my friends, is why we love living in the age of Bey. Photo: Tumblr, YouTube, Fame/Flynet"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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