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Good morning! and happy freakin birthday

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Thank you so much!

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Happy Birthday!!!!!

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Thanks Kummer )=

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You're welcome!

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I'm pretty excited.... got to finally order glasses. Now I can write without headaches...

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Oh, and I got a tattoo... from my favorite 5 yr old tattoo artist!

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I pray you had awesome holidays and an exuberantly blessed birthday! <3 much love to you and your family and friends always.

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Thank you, little sister. It was such a lovely day -- all I wanted was to be with my family. They all came over and we had a lovely BBQ -- OH, and my daughter Carley made me a complete new 'experimental' cake.

...now my #1 FAVORITE cake.

Ginger cake. Think of a Ginger Snap Cookie...as a cake, with super rich/thick Caramel frosting.

I'm a diabetic and it gave he a headache from sugar shock in 15 minutes!

....amazzzzzing.

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So cool on the coffee, so awesome on all the news! :D Happy birthday to you, Matt, and Wanted Hero! I hope the day was most excellent!

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It was amazing. Felt so loved and happy...received tiny gifts from my grandkids that made me smile from ear to ear...drawings, handmade cards, pieces of candy.

That's the thing I love about small children. When they give you candy as gifts, they give YOU what THEY like,...which, IMO, makes it extra special.

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That's awesome, Jaime. I love watching your videos, and I think it's incredible how you can always bring a smile to my face, and encourage everyone, while telling about your day, or week, or more.

Happy birthday, my friend.

I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day thoroughly, and that you enjoy taking your June break

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Thanks Hyrum =)

It's been a wonderful day.

I know I say 'break', but it'll be a focused effort to get a lot more created and prepped for you guys...I have to pull on the reigns hard so I don't wear myself out.

Going to bed at 11:30-midnight and getting up at 3-4am does NOT work for me anymore.

I'll still get up at 4am, but I have to schedule my time better...and discipline myself.

I'm in this for the long haul, God willing.

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Good call!!

I've never been self disciplined enough to consistently get up that early, and I'm afraid I value my rest tone to much, sometimes.

I love reading your stories, but am not really much of a talker, so tend to "let sleeping dogs lay", and funny generally comment much, but I do want you to know that I value your words very much, and thoroughly enjoy reading your books.

I also love, love, love hearing your narrations instead of listening to the substack narrator read your chapters.

Great work, Jaime, and thanks for lifting our spirits.

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Oh, I am so happy to hear that you enjoy the readings!

Been a little nervous about it -- I'm no voice actor, but I always read these stories to my children...and I enjoy doing that.

When the option arose for me to do this here on Life Of Fiction, I thought some of you might enjoy that option.

Good. Good. I'll keep doing it then.

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I've been wanting to ask you if the changes I've made have helped you in finding what you're looking for better....and if you like the audio version of the episodes?

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Absolutely!! I love listening to, and feeling the emotions in the book.

Thankyou.

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So happy to hear and you are SO welcome.

Makes me smile to know i'm on the right track -- appreciate you, Hyrum =)

Make sure to tell a friend (grin).

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happy belated birthday! *snug*

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