"All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have."

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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

— Walter Dean Myers