How to Have a Happy Birthday

I don't like doing anything for my birthday. But I also wouldn't want to fully be by myself on my birthday. In middle school, I would spend like six hours writing birthday texts to my friends that were like essays and it was like a mandatory thing. We made lists of who didn't send us birthday texts because that's fucked up. It's almost like a jab when somebody doesn't send you a birthday text,. Not anymore, but in middle school and high school. "It's crazy how like meaningful that was," she said.