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A Gentle Quill | CoraLynn 🌿's avatar

Happy birthday 🎂 best of wishes! ✨✨

Debra King's avatar

Thank you CoraLynn 💕

Darlene López's avatar

Happy birthday, Debra! 🥳🎉

Birthdays always bring a little gratitude, a little reflection, and a reminder of how much life you’ve lived.

Debra King's avatar

Thanks so much Darlene 😊

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Through the agony you became the amazing being you are now!! Happiest Birthday!!!

Leigh Hanham 🇦🇺's avatar

Happy birthday! 🎂🎁🎈💃

Jennifer M. Maki's avatar

Happy becoming Debra ✨💜 again and again. ✨💜

Heather  Jean Taylor's avatar

Love all of this, your article turning 47 really resonated with me (I turned 49 this year), isn't it an amazing thing to become best friends with yourself 💛

Debra King's avatar

I love that you said that. Learning to like myself has been the biggest surprise. Happy we’re both in this chapter 💛

Saira Anwar's avatar

Happy birthday, my friend.

This is so moving, raw, brave, empowering, amazing, gentle, honest, and full of strength. You’ve captured what it means to keep choosing life, even when it’s messy, painful, or slower than we imagined.

The image of seventeen-year-old you watching from a distance, that brought tears to my eyes. “Not easier, but full of a peace we couldn’t have understood back then.” That line stayed with me.

There’s so much beauty in the way you honour where you’ve been and who you’re becoming. Thank you for writing this. For sharing your journey with such care and truth. And for reminding us that becoming someone we’re proud of is the real magic.

Wishing you a new year filled with softness, creativity, and peace that asks nothing but your presence. I turned 44 on 30th November 🎉🎂❤️❤️‍🩹🥰

Debra King's avatar

Thank you for this… I felt every word. And happy birthday to you too my friend, sending you so much love for the year ahead. 💛

Saira Anwar's avatar

My pleasure, my friend! Thank you, my friend, that means so much. I’m holding your words close and sending love right back as we both step into a new year. 💛❤️🥰🎉🎂

Rachelann Barkley's avatar

Happy Birthday!

Debra King's avatar

Thank you Rachelann ❤️

Stephen Drew's avatar

Happiest birthday wishes!

Debra King's avatar

Thank you ☺️

Leslie Ann's avatar

Happy Birthday, Debra. ☺️

Debra King's avatar

Thank you Leslie 💗

Jennifer Robertson's avatar

Happy Birthday! This one made me a little teary in all the best ways. 🪻☕️ 💗

Debra King's avatar

Thanks so much Jennifer 💗

Ink and Light by Nat Hale's avatar

Happy Birthday I am 47 plus 13 now but I love this, the steady softness running through it, the sense of a life that’s been stitched together piece by piece.

That moment with the seventeen-year-old self really got me. It’s such a powerful thing to imagine her seeing everything you kept going for, even when you didn’t know how.

There’s a tenderness here that feels hard-won and deeply true.

Tangled Words's avatar

Happy Birthday! Im not far behind you. I will be 47 next year.

Debra King's avatar

Thank you :)