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September 18th<\/sup> is my dear friend, best friend\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 I tend to miss it every year by a minute or two.\u00a0 I don\u2019t normally miss birthdays except for the people I love most apparently; I tend to miss Kyle\u2019s too.\u00a0 Though I miss their official birthdays I celebrate them and tell them as often as possible that I love them.\u00a0 So here they are on the Cape for Sandra\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 I can\u2019t screw it up this year.<\/p>\n Sandra is on Cape because of the accident she had back in January, you remember Whiteface had a thing or two (broken legs that is) to say about her lifestyle and slowed her way down.\u00a0 I drove up to be by her side and the conversations went everywhere as you could imagine they would after a near miss.\u00a0 What will life look like now?\u00a0 What should the goals be going forward?\u00a0 Well, one tiny little goal could be to celebrate your birthday on the Cape\u2026.just saying\u2026might be nice\u2026could work. What do you think?\u00a0 Fast forward and here we are.<\/p>\n The weather was supposed to be a bit iffy but the Cape being its own little ecosystem (read finicky as hell) it turned out to be a beautiful day.\u00a0 So let\u2019s do the tourist thing and stroll around Chatham to shop and have a celebratory lunch.\u00a0 Off we go.<\/p>\n Kyle and I have a very strong fondness for Chatham.\u00a0 She found herself there after a traumatic event and scooped me up to bring me there after a traumatic event.\u00a0 We went each year for many years and it seemed that either she or I or neither of us had some kind of thing to work out.\u00a0 It was a salve for us and we looked forward to our time together there as only Summer Sisters could.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad she could work out being on the Cape this year after her bout with breast cancer, sometimes I just can\u2019t get close enough to her to give her all the energy and love I have for her.\u00a0 But when we\u2019re on Cape we know that we have enough love to pass back and forth to hold us for a while.\u00a0 She\u2019s got adjustments to make and life and style changes of her own to work out but I have the utmost faith that she will arrive on the other side of this as only she can, with grace and determination to continue to make her way in the world.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said it a million times, she is the smartest woman I know and I admire her more every time I see her.<\/p>\n Now we\u2019ll bring Sandra there to poke around and shop and walk and eat and just be on the Cape toward making her new found life and style come together.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny the things one thinks will put them on a new path.\u00a0 For Sandra it seemed to be about a more outward vision and so we found ourselves at the optical center in Chatham.\u00a0 Get it?\u00a0 Trying on glasses and imagining their effect not only on the people you\u2019re planning to do business with but on your own reflection back from the mirror. Are they me, is this what I want to put out there?\u00a0 Do they convey what\u2019s happened to me and what I\u2019ve gained from it?\u00a0 Oh we found the perfect pair but we\u2019ll come back later to be absolutely sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n So what would take your mind off such a weighty decision, lunch of course.\u00a0 Sandra\u2019s birthday, what would you like to eat.\u00a0 Lobster roll, well if you\u2019re going to do the tourist thing you may as well eat like one\u2026or maybe not.\u00a0 In the middle of Chatham is a place we passed on the way to the Squire named Celestino\u2019s Caf\u00e9.\u00a0 We sized up the items on the menu board and dismissed it as too expensive for dinner.\u00a0 But lunch?\u00a0 The items on the lunch menu board looked beyond appetizing and quite reasonable so we took a chance.\u00a0 Imagine Dijon mussels, fresh salads with strawberries and goat cheese.\u00a0 Imagine grilled cheese taken to the next level by using brie and lobster.\u00a0 And thankfully a beautiful lobster roll for our birthday girl.\u00a0 And oh yeah\u00a0a bottle of wine\u2026chardonnay that was light and fruity enough even for me.\u00a0 Did I mention we topped it off with dessert, I mean three desserts, one more delicious than the next. Hours spent at a table over lunch is somehow much more decadent than going out for dinner.\u00a0 We were the ladies who lunch enjoying the food and each other\u2019s company.\u00a0<\/p>\n So now there is shopping to complete.\u00a0 We continued our way up Main Street poking in and out of stores and people watching and chatting all along the way.\u00a0 Back at the optical center and yes we\u2019ll take those beautiful tortoise shell frames that are just big enough to make a statement and just classic enough to say I know a thing or two.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n Back on Willow we sit around happily with our books and our nibbles (because dinner is the furthest thing from our minds) in companionable silence until we just can\u2019t keep our eyes open another minute.\u00a0 Happy Birthday my dear friend, the rest of your life and your wonderful style will be far reaching. 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