Stone Fox Bride

I can still remember the day Dad drove me and Becca to the hospital to meet you. August 18, 1983. We sat in the waiting room, fighting over a blue and purple lanyard, and Dad picked up an orange, and put the little baby cap on it and said: "this is kind of what your brother looks like." By noon the next day we were home and by nighttime I had you on my hip and you pretty much stayed there for the next twelve years. Cuter than my Cabbage Patch Doll, more entertaining than the NBC's "A-Team" and full of mischief + mayheim (remember that time Ruby's whiskers disappeared?), Dionne Warwick songs and positively Phd-worthy facts about dinosaurs + animals that put Doogie Howser to shame. I will always be in awe of the time you pulled off the world's best prank: "Tales Of A Tragic Childhood: A Rosen Family Thanksgiving" with that pic of Dad carving a turkey on the cover of the Parker Weekly that nearly sent him to the grave twenty years early. If I had a quarter for every Sunday afternoon I ditched doing my high school homework to drive you to Water Tower in Mom's minivan to raid the FAO Shweetz bins and see Waynes World....How can it be that you are 35 today? Wasn't it just yesterday we were watching "Howard The Duck" and swapping Mad magazines in matching camo sweatpants on the couch in Dad's den eating potato chips with Duke? Never forget the summer we slept head to toe in the same bed in the East Village and watched every episode of Golden Girls in all of three weeks. I'm sorry I kicked you in the balls in the orthodontist's office and poured salsa down your throat when Mom wasn't looking. But then again, you did write that I had a "mangina" on my Myspace profile. A hybrid of Chris Martin meets High Laurie, you are a rockstar friend, animal lover, writer + artist of the highest order and stellar human being of the huge lion heart. Happy Birthday, baby bro. I am proud to be your sis. PS: I totally spaced on making it to the FedExplace before yesterday so your gift won’t arrive til next week. Sorry. xx @zackrosenindustries