50??? How'd that happen?

My brother Ed turned fifty years old on Thursday, Feb 25th. It didn't hit me until I was driving to work that day that he had reached a milestone in life, half a century, with me soon to follow in a few short years...yikes!
He had an easier time turning fifty than when he turned thirty. If I recall correctly, on his 30th b-day he went to bed with a migraine.

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This is a photo of the three of us siblings. I guess I was about six here. That's me, of course, in the middle. That is where I was always placed. I was in the middle, even in the car, so that my brothers could grab me out of harms way. Don't you love my doo? I thought I was the most stylish hairstyle my mom ever came up with (believe me there were some doozies - I will never forget the perm fiasco of 1974!)

Happy Birthday, Ed, may you have many, many more!