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Alicia Kenworthy's avatar

Beautifully written. Happy birthday, Em. 🎁

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Allison McKeany's avatar

Happy birthday sweet girl! For the first time you'll get to have candles in your dessert (chocolate pudding!), that's something to celebrate for sure. Love, mama

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Rob's avatar

Happy Birthday Em I hope you have a great day ❤️🎂🎂

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The Purple Girl's avatar

Happy Birthday Beautiful Em❤️

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Stanley's avatar

Happy birthday Emily! Wonderful piece, Lyle… and don’t ever forget that you and Allison are amazing, badass parents. Being a parent is hard even in the best of situations, and given your circumstances when read about your perseverance and optimism it energizes me- so thank you for that.

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Rita McKeany's avatar

Happy 4th Birthday sweet Em 💕. So proud of you. Love and hugs, Grandma Rita

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Leslie Petersen's avatar

Happy happy birthday sweet Emily💕

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Alethios's avatar

My daughter is almost exactly the same age, so this was lovely to read.

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Lyle McKeany's avatar

❤️

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Fizzy Foo's avatar

What a beautiful girl you have! My heart goes out to your family and my thoughts and prayers will be of your family this Christmas. Thank you for opening up and sharing.

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Lyle McKeany's avatar

Thanks, Fizzy!

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Jibran el Bazi's avatar

Thank you for sharing your daughter's story and for writing to her. 💜 I try to do so with my daughter here and there as well. (She was born with CDH and was in the NICU for 3 months, constantly on the brink of death.) I wrote a short poem on Hope related to my daughter a while ago which may resonate with you: https://jibran.substack.com/p/hope

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Lyle McKeany's avatar

That was a beautiful poem

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Lina Owsley's avatar

Happy Birthday beautiful Emily!💕Lyle, your story and the video soooo inspiring and educational for us all! Thank you. Emily is not only an amazing little girl her mom and dad ROCK too!

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Daniel Knez's avatar

Happy Birthday Em! I have a beautiful princess like you. Her name is Ini we call her Inisita. She is the love of my life. Lyle is my Twitter friend but hopefully my IRL soon and I would love for you to meet Inisita. Keep Working hard and have a beautiful bday!

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Chandler Helmholz's avatar

Beautiful Lyle, happy birthday Em!

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Kartik Varma's avatar

Happy birthday from india!

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Lail Arad's avatar

So not only do we share a name, but our kids share a birthday! My baby turned 1 yesterday. Here’s to pride and hope and sadness 💛

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Lyle McKeany's avatar

That's amazing! Happy bday to your little one ♥️

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