Today you turn 21!
I know you think that this is the pinnacle, but you are so wrong. Now you can drink legally. You are the age of majority. 21! Off to Cripple Creek? Have fun. I would like to say my work here is done, but that is not the case.
I have yet to be "done" raising any of them. You were just the last one. Now it is up to you to go out into the world and make a mark that will tell the world that your momma did a good job. Tell them that you hold the same values today that I instilled in you for the last 21 years. True I was not your mother all those years, but I was always there. Just around the corner and a phone call away.
I was there when you grew pot in your room. There when you skipped school. There when you made the merit roll, and when you didn't.
And now you are living out on your own, paying your own way, with your own girlfriend, your own dogs and whatever else, but try to remember that momma is still here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. BRET A. MERCER!!!
