A Girlfriend Has a Special Birthday

David Bianculli: If I were reading this email as literature, if I were free to speculate about the characters, even invited to by the nature of reading literature and fiction, I would say it reveals something even more beautiful. There's something about fresh love, young people being in love where you notice things like this about the other person. He says he doesn't know where kindness and general humanity and empathy end and where love begins; maybe there's no difference or maybe it all blurs together. The writer asks for a brief happy birthday on his upcoming monologues but is likely to be flooded with requests from readers who want him to wish them one too.