24. Fiyero's Birthday

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"Fiyero?"

The Vinkus prince looked up from his book, "Yes Nessarose?"

"When is your birthday?" the girl in the wheelchair asked him.

The others looked up as Fiyero closed his book and sighed. He smiled ruefully and said, "In my culture we don't have birthdays."

Glinda looked at him increduously, "You don't?"

"No. We don't celebrate the day of your birth." He replied.

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The next day Fiyero opened his book satchel, and out fell an envelope with his name on it. When he opened it, he almost cried.

"To our friend Fiyero, for all the birthdays we've missed. Your friends, Glinda, Elphaba, Nessarose, Boq and Duko."

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3/24/2006 10:30 PM