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Today is my birthday. I believe that a person's birthday ought to be a day of thanksgiving.

I am thankful for my parents who gave me life, my ethnicity, love,a belief in pursuing the moral imperative in all things I do, and their generosity.

I am thankful for a wife who has given me love, her championship all these long years, her patience when dealing with my faults, for nursing me back to health so many times, for wonderful meals and for her thrift.

I am thankful for my children for their love, their respect, the challenges of rearing them, for becoming solid citizens and for keeping me in their lives.

I am thankful for my family and friends for their love, championship, respect and patience and lack of juging when I was unintentionally rude, forgetful, prideful , distracted or unresponsive

And I am especially thankful to God for his many blessings, for my parents, my wife, my children and my family and friends whom have brought me so much joy and laughter to my life. And to thank God to have allowed me to be born free and in the greatest Country in the history of mankind.

I am a wealthy man.

P.S. God would I be pushing the limits if I asked for just one more small favor. Can you help me drop my handicap score by just two more points?