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Happy Birthday!

I'm 50, and I have always looked up to the people who are just like 2 to 7 years older than me. Seems like there's some sort of generational sweetspot. The kids that were juniors and seniors when I was a freshman turned out to be the cool kids my whole life.

Speaking of kids that age, here's a very germane clip of Ben Stiller (in the movie Greenberg), talking about his birthday and responding to the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdliqOGTLw

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