Sara’s Surprise Birthday Date

Sara’s Surprise Birthday Date Turns Serious

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Maria and Sara Lee were Korean immigrants living near Koreatown in Los Angeles. They had immigrated together when they were 16 and graduated from high school in LA and went to Cal State Long Beach together, then went to the University of Pacific’s MC George law school in Sacramento and had just graduated. They had decided to open their shop focusing on the legal needs of Asian Americans, and moved back to LA.

Sara had a surprise for Maria on their birthday. They had gone out to dinner, and she invited two of their classmates, Sam Adams and Jake Lee, who had also moved to Los Angeles. Sam was from Berkeley and had gone to CAL as an undergraduate, and Jake Lee was also from Berkeley but had gone to UCLA, to join them for dinner.

Maria thought that she would end up with Jake Lee and Sara would end up with Sam Adams. The four of them flirted up a storm and at the end of the night, it was clear to all of them that Maria and Sam Adams would date, and Sara and Jake Lee would date.

The two girls went home and talked it out, Maria was a bit miffed at Sara for arranging the date but calmed down, and they became friends again as twins usually do. And six months later they had a joint marriage. Sam and Jake joined their firm, which soon became one of the leading firms working on behalf of Asian Americans. Jake, Maria, and Sara taught Sam basic Korean, and he taught them conversational Japanese and Chinese. Later they added Indian staff who taught them Hindi and Hispanic staff who taught them all Spanish. The two sisters bought houses next door to each other and their children became best friends, Maria often thought it all happened on that magical birthday when she had just turned 25.

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Prompt:

In honor of my sister's birthday today - write a STORY or POEM about sisters getting together to celebrate their birthdays. It's a "momentous" birthday for one of the sisters (a special age - like 40 or 50 or 65 or 80). You MUST include what special age the sister is turning, a birthday surprise that doesn't quite turn out as planned, and choose COMEDY as one of your genres.

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