Dearest Clara,
It’s feeling impossible to write out my great fortune in being your aunt. I just feel so blessed to not only know you, but to have known you since day one and to witness so many magnificent things about you.
I’m having flashbacks to you in your pink Yankees ball cap and you telling me all about Jesse from Toy Story. It seemed impossible that you could be any cuter or cooler or the moment could be any more perfect than that, and yet year after year, getting to watch you grow up, it just gets better and better.
Like, I really get to hang out with this girl who can crack the funniest jokes & bake a perfect cake & do great in school & be so kind & inclusive to everyone? Someone who teaches me what to wear and what to listen to? Someone that I can completely depend on who is also the most fun to be around? Like, for real. I’m related to the philosopher who came up with the theory of kookpacity!
How am I that lucky?! You make everywhere you are better.
It’s a pure joy to be able to dive into our shared admiration for an artist or a movie or a particular person, place or thing. But I also truly adore the way that you stand up for the things that you love even when the people around you don’t seem to understand them. Hold on to those loves and the right you have to love them and I know you’re gonna be AOK in life.
Happy 18th Birthday, Clara Jane!
You’re simply marvelous.
Your adoring aunt,
Babetta
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