{"id":1300,"date":"2007-03-18T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2007-03-18T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T16:33:00","slug":"trouble-turns-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/birthdays\/trouble-turns-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble turns ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[photo by my mom, who remarked, in an e-mail to me: “Now, isn’t this just trouble waiting to happen…!”]<\/font><\/p>\n

This is my youngest nephew, Patrick. Today is his tenth birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s hitting double digits. I remember exactly what I was wearing the day he was born. I was a freshman in high school and, naturally, obsessed with clothes. Strangely enough for someone obsessed with clothing, I was wearing a long-sleeved, tight-fitting, purple velour shirt. <\/p>\n

I can’t believe I welcomed this kid into the world wearing purple velour. It was 1997, though. Everyone<\/i> was wearing purple velour. Right?<\/p>\n

Patrick is obsessed with fishing. Last fall we went fishing in the ponds on our family’s land and he caught a whopper of a fish. <\/p>\n

\"triumph\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Since that day, he has called me his “good-luck charm.”<\/p>\n

Be still, my heart. Such affection does a spinster-aunt-in-training good. <\/p>\n

I have a whole host of funny stories involving Patrick. He’s a prankster and a ham. But I guess the one story I love above all is this one<\/a>, from 2004:<\/p>\n

… Casey is into making beaded bracelets with lettered beads that spell out words. Well, Patrick, while Casey was off doing something else, got into the beads and made my mom a bracelet in a hurry, before Casey caught him. He brought it to her and said, “I couldn’t spell ‘Grammy’ so I wrote ‘I love Tim’ instead,” and ran off. Heh. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The kid is a comedian. <\/p>\n

Happy birthday, Patty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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