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Happy Birthday

Dean

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday dear Dean
Happy birthday to me.

39. The last year of my youth.

* Update * ...and if you happen to know any literary agents who'd like to see a totally original and sure-to-be-a-bestseller novel, please let me know. ;-)

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lindsey (mail):

If you think that's bad, I'm going to be 27! by the end of the month. It's horrible!

7.15.2005 2:35am

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lindsey (mail):

Oh, and Happy Birthday! Cancers rule!

7.15.2005 2:36am

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John Eddy (mail) (www):

Happy birthday, you doddering wreck.

7.15.2005 2:40am

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Sean Kinsell (mail) (www):

Ooh, a multiple of two primes. We share so much.

Happy birthday, buddy.

7.15.2005 2:48am

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cardeblu (mail):

Happy B-Day, Dean! My daughter's is today (still the 14th here in the NW), mine was the 12th, my brother's the 5th, my bro-in-law's the 6th, and I work with 4 other moon children.

October must be a really loving and fertile month.

7.15.2005 3:20am

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Matthew (mail):

Happy birthday, Dean.

From my perch at age 42, I can tell you life will really begin about one year from now... At about the same time, I expect you will become a fan of movie soundtracks, as I have. Indeed, the first signs of this transition appeared here recently, I believe.

And I note you've already got a headstart on the mid-life novel-writing phase. I'm behind you there, still mulling possible storylines...

Well, anyway, life is good. Enjoy your birthday.

7.15.2005 7:06am

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Craig (www):

Happy birthday, Dean, and many happy returns!

7.15.2005 7:19am

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Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday, dear Dean!

Happy Birthday to you!

I admire Dean
For marrying the Queen.

I admire the Queen
For marrying Dean.

HAIL TO THE KING....!!!!

7.15.2005 7:23am

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Cynical Nation (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday!

Yet one more thing we have in common: we're almost exactly the same age. No wonder I like coming here so much. :-)

7.15.2005 7:39am

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Rita (www):

Happy Birthday!

You've gotten it all wrong. Life is much better after 40. Trust me.

7.15.2005 8:01am

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Mike (mail):

Ha! Beat you to that milestone by seven months, you young whippersnapper!

7.15.2005 8:04am

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Mark at Urthshu (www):

Happy Birthday, Dean.

7.15.2005 8:24am

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Andrew Ian Dodge (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday mate. I would point out that most literary agents are freaking useless.

7.15.2005 9:10am

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Val Prieto (mail) (www):

Tell you what, Dean. Let's say that we'll spend your 40th on some island in the Caribbean, kicking back and downing mojitos.

It'll be on me.

7.15.2005 9:10am

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AmandaD (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday, Dean! May you have many, many more. And, remember, you're as young as you feel.

7.15.2005 9:11am

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Arnold Harris (mail):

End of youth at 39? Keep an open mind, and never sell out to falsehood, and you will be as youthful at 70 as your were when you were an innocent child in your mama's arms.

Happy birthday, Dean.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

7.15.2005 9:20am

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Timothy Snyder:

Love the Dean! and the Deanette isn't too bad either.

7.15.2005 9:26am

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Jay Solo (mail) (www):

Heh. I managed to announce your birthday before you did. Happy birthday!

Today is also the birthday of Blake "Laughing Wolf" Powers and Jeff Jarvis.

Tomorrow is the birthday of Denise, aka Ith, of Absinthe &Cookies fame.

7.15.2005 9:26am

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Rune from Oslo Norway (mail):

Veels geluk met jou verjaarsdag!
Ungil el cherellem!
Sun Yat Fai Lok!
Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!
Gratulerer med dagen!

And so on and so on.

7.15.2005 9:56am

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Paul Burgess (www):

Happy Birthday!

BTW, I can say that from the vantage point of 49, 39 looks pretty damn good!

PS: The order from Amazon shipped last night, look for it to turn up in the mail.

7.15.2005 10:02am

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Phil Massey (www):

Happy Birthday Dean!

And many happy returns!

7.15.2005 10:24am

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Scott Kirwin (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday, Dean

7.15.2005 10:35am

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TallDave (mail) (www):

Birthdays are a meaningless anachronistic throwback to the primitive pre-'sphere days. Blogiversaries are much more relevant and worthy of celebration in these modern times.

Plus, I've always wondered about that "many happy returns" phraseology. Shouldn't you enjoy the gifts, rather than cynically returning them?

7.15.2005 10:38am

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Josh Reynolds (mail) (www):

Best wishes Dean!

7.15.2005 10:40am

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Zippo:

Happy Birthday, Dean.

I have a good friend who is an Acquisitions Editor at a major house. If he can't help you he may know someone that can.

Email me directly if interested.

7.15.2005 10:54am

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Tim (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday, Dean. But I gotta tell you, 40 is the new 25.

7.15.2005 11:13am

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Eric R. Ashley (mail) (www):

Getting published would be a really nice birthday gift. Best of fortune, and happy birthday.

Eric R. Ashley

7.15.2005 11:26am

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Gary R (mail) (www):

I've been 39 for years.

7.15.2005 11:51am

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pam (mail):

Happy Birthday Dean! I turned 41 last thursday, does that make me old? :)

7.15.2005 11:58am

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Hank Barnes (mail):

Holy Smokes!

How can you be so wise at the tender age of 39, you pup!

Regards,

Barnes, Hank

7.15.2005 12:02pm

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Fausta (mail) (www):

Happy birthday!

7.15.2005 12:33pm

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Matthew B. (mail) (www):

39? Child.

Happy one, dude. And many, many more.

7.15.2005 12:37pm

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Bryan Costin (mail) (www):

Happy Birthday!

7.15.2005 12:54pm

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Sandi (www):

Happy Birthday Dean.

A good day in history.

The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on this day 1606.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, opens at New York's Roxy Theater on this day 1919

Irish Murdoch, author of 26 intellectually rigorous novels, is born on this day 1919.

7.15.2005 3:03pm

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maryatexitzero (mail):

The only literary agent I know focuses on children's books. But I can ask around..

Happy Birthday!

7.15.2005 3:20pm

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Jane (mail) (www):

Hey my birthday was yesterday. Happy birthday Dean and best wishes.

7.15.2005 5:10pm

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maggie may - labrat:

For your b-day I emailed a friend of mine in publishing about you. If she gives the ok, I'll send you her e-mail addy.

Have a great day.

7.15.2005 5:19pm

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maggie may - labrat:

That was fast. Just got the ok.

Check your e-mail and good luck.

7.15.2005 5:32pm

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Mrs. du Toit (www):

Just remember, your body came with a 39 year warranty.

Tomorrow you'll begin to go blind, ache in muscles you didn't know you had, have great difficulty getting out of low chairs, and forget why you walked into a room about 10 times a day.

Just to keep your spirits up. :)

Happy Birthday, Buddy.

7.15.2005 8:02pm

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JYW:

Oh, and it should be:
Sang Yut Fai Lauk!
At least in Cantonese.
In Mandarin,
ShengRi KuaiLe!
Happy Birthday, and here's to many more.

7.15.2005 8:16pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Happy birthday! Now I've got to get back to my reading...

7.15.2005 9:17pm

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Richard (www):

Praise the Lord, Dean.

7.16.2005 7:47am

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Dean Esmay:

What's it like to go through life so bitter and mean-spirited, Richard?

You really don't have many friends, do you?

7.16.2005 10:05pm

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M. Scott Eiland (mail):

I'll be joining you there in a couple of weeks, Dean--now we just need to engage the Jack Benny Memorial Hyperatomic Braking Mechanism and settle in at 39 for the next fifty years or so. . .:-)

7.17.2005 2:58am