(say this in one breath, I dare you. ready...go!) Have an amazing beautiful carefree delightful exciting fantastic great humorous incredible joyous kindly lovely merry nice okay pleasant ...qualitative radiant super terriffic unbelievable vivacious wonderful ...x-tra special ...yummy ...zany birthday! (wooh! ...well don't blame me, it's not my fault you took a dare
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And the moral of the story: bad news travels fast because there are a lot more negative words out there than positive words.
The other moral of the story: a simple "happy birthday" works just fine.
That was exhausting!