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  • maman
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    Oh dear @cathybird, enjoy your enforced extra days.

    1/10 AFDs please

  • maman
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    Happy Birthday @RobM99 🎂🎉 .Hope you enjoyed your celebratory beer yesterday. 🍺

  • sukeyboo
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    Wishing you a very Happy Birthday @RobM99 🎂

  • Brie
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    @RobM99 - happy birthday and many more (birthdays not beers)

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    Happy birthday @RobM99 - I have a similarly big birthday at the end of May, and plan to "slip", lol

    2/27 for me today please.

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    Happy birthday @RobM99

    2/20 for me please

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    Happy birthday @RobM99

    I hope you get home safely and soon @cathybird!

    I had two small glasses of champagne yesterday. I can't imagine a world where I am being offered champagne and saying 'no thank you' but that world clearly exists, so I clearly have room to grow on this journey.

    AF today so off the starting blocks with 1/25 please

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  • BlueJ94
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    2/18 please!

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    Happy birthday @RobM99 🥳. 2 AFDs for me please @cathybird

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