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I’m Pretending Not to Notice Your Birthday Fundraiser

Didn’t see it there on Facebook…nope…didn’t see it

Caren Lissner
3 min readJul 17, 2019
Photo by Karly Jones on Unsplash

Wow, what a great old photo you just posted on Facebook of you and your pet chinchillas! Was that taken during freshman year of college? How the heck did you sneak your pets into the dorm? Now I wish even more that I’d known you then. At least our mutual friend finally introduced us at the reunion in May. I’m also glad about that because you’re an executive at Netflix and I’ve got a pilot script about competing video arcades in the same Ohio neighborhood in the 1980s. I think I’ll “like” your photo and write “beautiful animals” under it.

Oh how funny — I see you recently posted a picture of a golf course in Europe with a sign written in various languages. In English it says, “Do not to leave your balls on the course please.” Hilarious! Instead of a “like,” I’ll “love” this post. Wait, should I have loved the previous one since it was about animals? Probably too many loves make a “love” lose its meaning.

Hmmm. I just noticed a notification about you in my right margin.

It says your birthday is tomorrow.

What can I post on your wall that says, “Even though I only met you once, I would love to send you my pilot script that takes place in the eighties although I was born…

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Caren Lissner
Caren Lissner

Written by Caren Lissner

Author of nerdy novel CARRIE PILBY (film version‘s on Netflix). Finishing up offbeat memoir. Love dogs & puns. Read more: http://carenlissner.com.

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