This journal belongs to: Jane Brown

Date of birth: 17th July 1999

Received: 17th July 2019 for your 20th birthday from your Aunt Flor

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My dear Jane Brown,

I thought that keeping a journal might be useful for the cultivation of your person and character, so that you might record your thoughts and dreams (if you like) and so hopefully come to understand yourself better. You can draw or write or do as you like in this journal. Let it be a record of your own personal history, perhaps.

I only hope that you are willing to undertake the long and difficult journey of truly getting to know yourself so that you will also come to know what you want to do with your life and not live aimlessly every day now that you are living on your own. I hope that you do not get caught up in the humdrum of daily life, too busy to consider your own health, life and balance.

I hope too, that you can find something that you like and love and can be passionate about.

Happy birthday, dearest girl! A quarter of a century is a milestone, but also a reminder that you're not that old yet...

Many blessings and many happy returns.

Love from your dearest wordy aunt who tends to talk too much for you,

XOXO

Aunty Flor