everhope -> RE: -=Happy Birthday Everhope=- (6/14/2008 3:06:02 PM)
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angelikaJ...so right. Flag day it is. on my 7th birthday i was given an American flag. it was the only present placed on the table at my place. i was soooo disappointed. a friggin flag yea just what every 7 year old girl wants...right? through out the day, i had myself convinced i was a bad bad girl to only deserve a flag. my Father even made a big deal about me going out and hanging the damn disappointing present. i just wanted to go out and play with my friends and forget about that flag. forget oh no...it was flag day. flags were waving in front of most of the homes...i saw small flags, medium flags and even some big flags...i was so hating flags! then it dawned on me that at least i had been given a big flag. (so fucking american) and i couldn't have been all that bad. i got a big one! i was even enjoying hearing them flapping in the wind all those neighborhood flags. (i still do..thinkin i can make it a fetish all unto my own.) in the early eve, after my day of working through my flag issues, my Father says to me "you must have been disappointed to only recieve a flag today for your birthday". i replied, "yes, i was until i realized there were all different sizes of flags and you gave me a big one and Daddy i like the sound the flag makes flapping in the wind." he laughed and said, "brenda, we gave you a flag because you share your birthday with the day America adopted the stars and stripes as it's official flag." and we want you to be proud that you live in a country that represents freedom. being 7, i really did not know much American history and honestly still don't. (secret... i liked boys way more than subjects like history, science and math so things like history and such didn't stick to well, but um boys ..well the slut story is still to be written). i am glad i share my birthday with the American flag and all it represents. oh and i got more presents later that night...hell if i can remember what they were, but i remember that flag well!.
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