When approaching your 40th birthday, there are a few token paths you might consider.

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If Facebook is a public square (and it is, by the way), your birthday is the day when the square stops for a moment to sing.

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When the Treasury hands you a birthday gift charged to your own credit card, are you made richer?

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When I think back, though, I believe you died some eight years earlier, just after your 50th birthday party.

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