Comment from l.raven

Excellent

Hi Debi, LOL... I do wish I had a six...****** for Kimbob's birthday
poem...he is a sweetheart...and a very talented writer...

this is an awesome tribute to his...I wish my 39th birthday poem...
LOL...it would be great if after a certain age...we stop growing
older...sigh...

Kimbob is a great guy and a wonderful friend...and has a great sense
of humor...I am honored to call him my friend...
so HAPPY 39th NO HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH...and many more...

Thank You beautiful girl for letting us know about Kimbob's
no-birthday wish...it's wonderful that you take the time to
write poems on most of our FanStory friends...you have a
beautiful heart...

I love your poem sweet girl...and loveeee this picture...
your videos are some of the greatest hits ever written...
and by some of the greatest singers heard...very well written...
love much...Linda xxoo

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi Linda, I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

reply by l.raven on 15-Oct-2024

your so very welcome sweet angel...
he's really a great guy...love xxoo

Comment from GeorgeAnn Castles

Excellent

You made me love "Kimbob"! He sounds so fun...I would love to meet him, He lives in a beautiful place. Your writing makes him known to all. I like that!
GA

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi GeorgeAnn, I see you are new here and I would like to welcome you. I thank you for the lovely comments about this biographical birthday poem.
So I have to let you know that if you give a four star rating or lower, you should give an explanation of what you think they could have improved on.
The reason is that a four star erases a six star. If you look at your own reviews, you will see that most probably gave you five stars and that is the norm here. And if you got anything lower then you were probably told what to change.
If it was a slip of the finger and didn't mean the four, they can be changed where you reviewed it and then save. Thank you so very much. Debi

reply by GeorgeAnn Castles on 15-Oct-2024

Definitely a slip of the finger! THANKS!

reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Thank you so much for letting me know., it happens all the time. I appreciate your sweet response.

reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Thank you so much, GeorgeAnn. I appreciate you changing the rating.

Comment from mermaids

Exceptional

Kimbob is one of my favorite writers on this site and he is also one of my favorite people. Love the No-Birthday tribute to an individual who is soooo much fun! I see his sense of humor in your poem with him being 39 years old repeatedly. I will have to wish him a No-Birthday!

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Elaine, gosh, I appreciate such a kind review, comments and generous six stars for Kimbob's poem. He also will appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

Comment from gansach

Excellent

This reminds me of the tea-party song from Alice in Wonderland (the Disney version), A Very Merry Un-Birthday! So I will wish Father Flaps a merry un-birthday which I'm sure many of us would prefer to celebrate as those years start creeping up. You've done a lovely poem for him, Debi. Great job!

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi Gail, I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

Comment from Sally Law

Exceptional

Oh, our dear Kim is 39 again? I'm not very good at counting so I guess you're right! We count the days not the years anyway. Many good days for our dear Canadian.

O Canada, Happy Birthday! It snuck up on me this year. May you have a wonderful birthday surrounded by all that you love! I'm sure a hike along Grand Bay will be involved. Say hello to autumn for me. All my best to you, dear friend.

Thank you, Debi dear, for the lovely virtual card and jukebox tunes just for Kim.
Love & Blessings across the miles to you both.
Sal XOs

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi Sally, gosh, I appreciate such a kind review, comments and generous six stars for Kimbob's poem. He also will appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my very dear friend. Love, Debi

Comment from Begin Again

Excellent

A non-birthday party sounds great to me! We can eat cake (which doesn't count) and celebrate for hours and then pretend it never happened. I think you've started a trend.

Wish you the best of the best every day as you take your walks and enjoy life for what it is.... another beautiful day.

Gret job as usual Debi! You just have the right flare for writing these (birthday) wishes.

Smiles, Carol

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi Sweet Carol, I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

Comment from Pam Lonsdale

Excellent

Kimbob, you are one of the joys of FanStory! I love your poetry, I enjoy hearing about your walks through the woods and your love of nature, and I'm hoping you celebrate this birthday with your beloved family and that they spoil you rotten with gifts and love.

Happy No-Birthday to a great guy!

Thanks, Debi. Kimbob is so worthy of one of your poems.

xo
Pammy (as Kimbob calls me)

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2024

Hi Pammy, hehe! I can see him calling you that. What a character he is but one of the true good guys.

So only a few days away and are you absolutely sure you don't want a poem? I know the answer and you know I feel the same way, but I don't think I will be flying under the radar according to a few friends who wouldn't take no for an answer. So I am going to embrace it, especially since my mother never had the luxury to make it even close.

How would you like to join me for a birthday drink sometime that day? We can email each other and toast to our being birthday twins.

I have some exciting news about being used in an experimental program to try to get my sight back. It is a drug called oxavert or something like that. I am only the third one they will have used it on in the Twin Cities area.
The first ones sight was restored 100%. However, it is a $100,000.drug and they have to work with the pharmaceutical company to get the price down.. So get this, it is an eye drop and is listed as one of the most expensive drugs on the market. But it just may restore my eye back without the cornea transplant.

I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

reply by Pam Lonsdale on 16-Oct-2024

Debi, the news on the drug is promising, but it's new and experimental and extremely expensive, so who knows what kind of success you will have. Are you completely blind in the one eye? And they believe Covid caused this?

Keep me posted one way or the other. You are lucky to be near Mayo Clinic, probably the best medical center in the world. Are your doctors there, or closer to home?

Still NO on the birthday poem. Sorry, I'd just prefer to fly under the radar this year. Plus, as I said, I've had two poems and someone else should get one instead of me.

Do I have your phone number? Mine is 860-878-7636. Send me a picture of your "birthday toast" to my cell phone, and I'll do the same. I am out all day on Saturday: walk with friends, writing class at Flagler College, lunch then off to a 90-minute massage, pick Jim up and go downtown to do a little shopping in their quaint shops, a martini at the Tini Martini Bar, then home for Jim's steaks on the grill. Whew! I should sleep well that night!

What are you up to? Or is it a surprise your family is putting together for you?

Text me a picture:-)

xo

Comment from Sanku

Excellent

Good selection of songs .Frankly Ididnt understand about 39 th birthday .I have read some of his posts, please pass on my wishes to him.Thank you Debi!!

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2024

Hi Santha, I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. The 39th birthday is something here in America as a joke. There was a guy named Jack Benny on television when I was a kid who always talked about staying 39. Every birthday, he claimed to be 39. So that is kinda what Kimbob is doing is saying he has been 39 for 36 years. In other words he is now 75. I hope I explained that right. It is just all in fun.

He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

Comment from Kahlani

Excellent

Hi Debi, I don't know Kimbob but... Happy NO Birthday Kimbob! What a clever way to introduce other members of our family to the newbies. I look forward to reading Kimbob's posts and of course yours as well.

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2024

Hi Kahlani, I do these poems for anyone who wants one. All you have to do is let me know your birthday and I contact you right before then and then you just give me what you want to share and I will put it into a birthday biographical poem for you.

I feel that God sent me here to make a difference and to spread joy. But you are right, people will get to know you better and even fan you when they hear about you through your poem. It helps to get more reviews too then. At least that is what they tell me. It truly gives me a good feeling to do them. So let me know if you are interested ..

I appreciate your kind review and comments for Kimbob and his poem. He will also appreciate your sweet comments.
Thank you for making my day, my dear friend. Love, Debi

reply by Kahlani on 16-Oct-2024

Hi Debi, That's a wonderful idea. I had my birthday last month, but would love one for next year. I actually write poems for my students at the end of the year. It makes me feel good but I also want my students to know that they are special to me. I find the standard comments don't convey the achievements and efforts they have put in all year but poetry does.

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

This is so sweet! Thanks for celebrating our brother Kimbob and we are thankful for all he does for our community and his neighborhood and his church family! His family is so blessed!

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2024

Hi Helen, do you remember Jack Benny? He always used to say he was 39 and that is where he stayed. So where I wrote in the poem that 36 times Kimbob was 39, I changed the next one to say, "Jack Benny never got as many years from that old line." LOL.

Thanks for all your very kind words for Kimbob and his poem. I sure appreciate it. Thanks again my sweet sis and friend.
Love ya, Debi.