The daughter of one of my dearest friends turns 10 years old today. Last year, on her ninth birthday, she wrote this to her mother:

Dearest mama,

Congratulations on your ninth child!

You'll find it strange, but each year it's a new child.

I'm wishing you to have as many children as possible!

This note is so incredible I keep citing it to everyone. Last week, I asked my friend if she remembered it - and she didn't! She said her daughter wrote something as crazy and full of depth regularly, and she kept storing these notes religiously...

Happy Birthday, Yulia!