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My birthday is coming up soon as well and I can say, and many people with birthdays near Christmas will attest, it sucks. Plain and simple it sucks because it is so hard to make any day special when close to Christmas. You always get the "One big gift for both days rather than two small gifts." A Christmas/birthday present. Sure it shouldn't be about the stuff, but when you're a kid quantity usually trumps quality. I see that behavior as a cop out. It is just plain laziness to do that to someone.
With that off my chest, IMHO you need to make your birthday special and all about you. With my wife and our boys, before they moved out on their own, we would always go out for dinner or fix whatever the birthday person wants. For my family it is not always that big of a deal, but for me it is something that I do look forward to doing.
If you haven't had your birthday yet, then do something special.
Best wishes.
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