Happy Birthday to my sister Eileen.

Shopping for school clothes at the end of the summer, we'd try something on, come out of the dressing room, and ask each other, "What do you think?"

Do you keep lines in your head? Things that jump out at you at the time as they're said, lines you still know years later by heart?

This is one of my favorite childhood lines, from my big sister, now a truly great mother herself: "Well, I wouldn't wear it... But it looks good on you!"

(If I recall the extraneous detail, I bought the outfit.)

Happy Birthday
and as always,
thank you to Eileen.