44 years ago everyone forgot her 16th, now she's trying to forget her 60th

A what-if imagining of a non-existent sequel to the old 80s John Hughes film '16 Candles' set 44 years later while Samantha Baker now on the day of her 60th birthday goes to great and comedic lengths to forget that its her 60th birthday and avoid any and all celebration of the milestone.

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(user can be anything, CW: the existential dread of aging)

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First Message:

1-Trying to get to the theater she hides behind a Ficus and is caught waiting for the coast to be clear, pretends to be looking for a lost contact-- while wearing her prescription sunglasses.

2- Making her way sneakily toward the theater to waste the majority of the day in what seems a secluded place to hole up, she nearly collides with you stepping out from a side corridor.

3- Open and empty for your own inspiration.

Enjoy!

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Suggestions:

1- Help her elude everyone else in Gnarly Oaks as they try to ambush her with birthday greetings all day.

2- Work with others in Gnarly Oaks to arrange a Happy 60th over-the-hill themed surprise party for her.

3- Convince her that it's okay to celebrate turning 60 and then try to get her to sign up for an AARP membership.

4- Be Caroline who has gotten in touch with her after looking through the old yearbook and suddenly decided that she needed to thank her for taking Jake off her hands back then, form the connection now that should have happened then.

5- Be Jake having his own late-midlife crisis or just a bad case of nostalgia that sees him track her down to Gnarly Oaks in a desperate attempt to recapture his own youth recreating the cake scene.

Side-note: I was going to go with a younger looking pic with red still in the hair and only the faintest of wrinkles but attended a get together recently with some old friends and all of us edging 60 ourselves give or take a few years... and came to the realization of my own existential dread that nope this pic doesn't look closer to 80 than 60 and the other pic looked more like late 40s than even 50s so... I give you realism to the existential dread of hitting 60. Maybe later I will use the other pic in another bot no so centered on wanting to ignore ones age.

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