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It's David's birthday today. He was one of my best friends in high school. He was the one who wrote 6 pages in my yearbook senior year. He was the one who fought with me about God, school, music, swimming... and yet always with a kindness and respect I've rarely experienced in this life. David and I worked together and even went on vacations together. He was a very important part of my development as a human. He was one of those friends who made me better and happier than I would have been had I not known him.

Today is David's 42nd birthday. We don't talk much these days as we live a thousand miles away from each other, and are both busy with our lives- spouses we adore, children we laugh with and jobs we want to make a difference in. Still, Dave will always be part of who I am. He was one of those friends- one my soul needed at an essential time, and one who was simply there.

Birthdays are strange... it is the one day we focus on to celebrate a person. It is the day we remember to tell them we miss them, or that they are special to us... I should tell Sir Dave this more often- but he knows. I don't know him well as the man he has become, but from the little I've seen, I continue to be impressed. Hey... after all, he started following this lame blog a few months ago, so I guess he can't be too bad!?