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Happy Birthday!! You are a wonderful island of sanity, information & reason.

God Bless!

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A belated but very happy birthday to you Freewheeling Frances and your trusty Spiffy McZoom!

XXX. Respect & XZ 2 All.

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Happy Birthday 🎂 and many many more adventurous ones to come.

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happy Birthday Frances Leader

💎🪄🧩 sorry I am late with my wishes

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What is 3 weeks between friends? 🤣😂

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I’ve got a lot to learn Yet ..

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Happy birthday, Frances!!❤️😊

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My dear, I'm four days late, I've been too busy with work. I wish you can get to 101 years old. 😘

Thanks for all your hard work with your right hand (white magic).

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Thanks Joao! No worries that you are late, but 101? Eek! That is a big ambition! I will put it on my bucket list! 😉

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Estuve todo el año de 1993 en Londres. Me estás alegrando los días con tus lecturas y tu experiencia. Sólo deseo haberme cruzado contigo en tu ciudad al menos una vez. Ese día, con vagos recuerdos del tiempo, seguro que fui feliz. Gracias Frances.

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You might like this inspired rule. After the age of 50, you get to divide your age in half. So technically you are 36. Before just throwing this aside, think of the power that numbers impact our thoughts and especially in regard to age. That being the case. If for only one split moment you felt a physical twinge reading those words of 36. Think about the dramatic affect your mind has when committed to a new number as your age. Wrote a short book about this called "Double Your Life Span" and you do it by halving your age and actually being committed to it. Happy Birthday Frances!

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OK! lol

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Belated Happy Birthday dear friend. I hope that you had a great day and got spoilt rotten.

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I was! I am loving my new landline phone and making my box of chocs last as long as possible!

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Happy Birthday!

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Congratulations! You've made it this far even though you had to be exposed to who knows how many toxic influences in your life, including Boris Johnson! That right there would have taken a good 20 years away from my life. I'm over here in these Disunited States of America because so many years ago a bunch of Brits kicked King George's ass. Now if we could only figure out how to get out from under all the insanity that the current administration is subjecting us to that is WORSE than what King George did!

My new motto is this though...getting old sucks! I'll be 70 this year and hope to live long enough to see an awakening world wide where the chains of the psychopathic control freak parasites are finally thrown off! It's been long enough... ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0cElsAHWk&t=29s

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Happy birthday Frances 🎉... Thanks for all the excellent articles and hard work you've put into educating us who are new to seeing the world through different eyes... Hope you had a great day !!

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Hoping your birthday was wonderful! Sending Happy belated B-day wishes. I enjoy hearing of the continuation of your adventures.

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I will continue to write about my adventures! It is wonderful that you appreciate them so much, Kelly! xx

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Wonderful! You're a gem!🤗

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Happy day-after-birthday, Frances! I’m confident you will have more chapters to add to your autobiography!

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I have plans..... 😉

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Happy birthday!

And a few unsolicited advice, if you don't mind, but even if you do :)

1. Never ever wear sunglasses.

2. Expose your body to the sun as much as you can (no sunscreen build it up, from the morning sun), especially in the U.K. The older we get, the more we need it.

3. Work on your circadian rhythm.

4. Do a bit of weightlifting or any other resistance training. It can be done sitting. In the gym, they will be able to advise you.

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You have no idea about me. I WILL DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT FOR ME. Got it? Good.

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I know :) yet, if you do these, you'll thank me later.

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You have no idea about me. I am not in the mood to write an entire paragraph putting you right but, put it this way, you have NO RIGHT to tell ANYONE what to do! Your advice is critical, dangerous and cruel.

1) You don't criticise someone for wearing sunglasses when they were going outside in full sun for the first time in a very long time!

2) You don't tell a woman who worked outside, off grid in Spain what the advantages are of clean skin without sunscreen!

3) You don't tell a Barefoot Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine about Circadian Rhythms as if YOU know all about them - which you CLEARLY DO NOT.

4) You don't advise someone who has had three strokes and a heart attack to do weightlifting.

Now butt out with your internet acquired, half-witted, frankly dangerous bullshit before I kick you off my page PERMANENTLY.

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I didn't mean to anger you! Certainly not on your BD!

BTW, I am a bookworm (and old research paper reader), not an internet reader.

And, I trust you'll reach your goals.

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It would have been nice to get to the end of my birthday without some twat trying to fuck me off. Thanks for that yulia. Got your number loud and clear.

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Oh dear, do you truly think it was to 'try to fuck you off'?

If so, then, you're far from 'getting my number'.

Anyway, wishing you a nice day.

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Happy birthday 🎉

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