Happy Birthday!

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Betty is definitely a friend worth having - and keeping - whether close by or via the miracle of the internet. She will kill me for this, but I have known her for forty years; and she is a wealth of knowledge on many subjects related to the 19th- and early-20th century.

The wonderful thing to me is that she is largely self-taught, not having started college until middle age and then quickly earning both her bachelor's and her master's degree back-to-back. I would bet that her professors learned a lot from her about our period in history. Betty is a voracious reader -- and as you all can attest, dearly loves to share. She is also a ball of fun to be with...

Happy Birthday, dear friend.