re: #16 darthstar

My then in-laws brought out a cake with a big yellow 3 and white 0 candle on it and my initial reaction was, “God, what a fucking ugly number!” - they laughed…which was good. But I hated that number.

My parents came up, my wife invited all my friends and people from church I knew, she bought all my favorite foods, she tried so hard. But there was no way she was going to make that birthday into anything other than a train wreck, given everything else that was going on. I still feel guilty for saying that out loud, even ten years later.