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For each of us, one right after another. Boom, boom, boom. I’m the first to cross that dubious threshold in May. Alex turns right after me in August—

Turns? That’s horrible. It sounds like one day we’re light and lively and the next day we’re soured milk. I’d never thought of it that way and wish I hadn’t because it gives me yet another reason to dread turning forty. Anyhow, Rainey, the baby of the bunch, is the last to outlive her shelf life. She turns in November.

And we started the annual girls’ getaway the year of our thirtieth birthdays. So in a sense this year is a double celebration.

But I can’t go. Because I don’t trust my husband enough to leave him alone for two nights….