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Alyssa's avatar

Happy Birthday Meg! Thank you for introducing me to so much awesome. Have a great year!

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Meg Tietz's avatar

Thank you so much, Alyssa!

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Nichole's avatar

Happy Happy Birthday! Yes to The Westing Game! Being only 2 weeks older than you, a lot of the growing up things would also have been on a list for me. The BSC, Love's Baby Soft, SPF 4! What were we thinking? I still see SPF 8 out in the wild every now and again and wonder who on earth is using it.

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Meg Tietz's avatar

SPF 4!! Like why did we even bother?? I guess it was a slight step up from baby oil! 😆😆 Thank you for the birthday wishes!

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Patty Breen's avatar

May it be such a wonderful day and an even better year for you!

💯 with you on The Babysitter Club books. My siblings and I loved the library so much that we played it at home… we made a library card for one of our patrons (my mom!) known as Shirley Soapwater🤣

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amanda's avatar

Happy birthday to us 🎉🎂 love your list -so relatable 🫶🏻 show choir in the 90s was so fun - it takes itself so seriously now I probably wouldn't have made it in.

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Jolie DeVries's avatar

Happy Birthday!!

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Aimee Mulligan's avatar

Awe Happy Birthday!! So much nostalgia here! I will turn 48 in August and I concur: cassette tapes, the food court and magazines were the analog gold of my teen years!

What a fun time it was to grow up.

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Jen Hansen's avatar

Happy birthday, Meg! Oh, the teen magazines! I tore up so many of those to plaster my walls and locker with new kids on the block pics. ❤️

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Laura's avatar

Happy happy birthday Meg! The WAY that I searched that show choir photo to see if Laura was pictured too! 😉 This list is fantastic. My BSC alignment was a Dawn who always wanted to be a Stacey. Imagine my delight when my 9 year old Emily began reading and loving the series! I hope you have the sunniest year ever. You sure bring sparkles to so many.

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Jessica's avatar

🎉 Happy Birthday Meg 🎉

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Marcia Francois's avatar

Happy birthday!!! I was also so glad to turn 48 as I was convinced I was dying and…. it was peri menopause symptoms (I know that now only). Still best money I spent medically on that super expensive cardiologist appointment.

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Amy Illingworth's avatar

Happy Birthday and thank you for sharing! I'm borrowing this idea for my 50th coming up in September!

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Hallie M Waugh's avatar

Goodness, I love this practice. And that quote. 💫

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Kathleen's avatar

I’m a little late but happiest of birthdays to you! (Happy Birthday Week!) You’ve brought a lot of joy to my life through everything you’ve put out into the world. And, at 47, I could relate to *many* of the things on your list. Had completely forgotten about YM magazine but I was also a fan - also of Sassy magazine and Seventeen. Although some of those articles…😬.

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Meg Tietz's avatar

Thank you, Kathleen! And YES - those front cover headlines now read as a leeeeeeettle problematic right?? hahahahha

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Laura Tremaine's avatar

I LOVE THIS. Also love having been a part of so much of this with you, especially #30 and #36. Also Megan Graves made me actually guffaw out loud. #forever

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Meg Tietz's avatar

Hahahhahah - honestly, I still think that was the prettiest name I could have ended up with. Maybe not the person, but definitely the name!!

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Gwendolyn Rogers's avatar

Happy belated birthday and love love this list!! So many things to relate to and also things that create the unique you! ❤️

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