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30th birthday · given to a friend · £150+“For her 30th we did not get her a thing at all. We paid for a year of the climbing membership she had been saying she would get around to since roughly her 27th, and the four of us went with…”
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30th birthday · from a partner · nothing to buy“My partner cleared out the shed. That was it. That was the present.
I had been going to do it for two years and it had become a low, permanent hum of guilt every time I walked past the wind…”
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