Dear Diary,
Today is daddy's birthday! So just like always there is a big celebration, with a big cake, and lots of pretty fireworks! Oh and there are lots of people too! Its lots and lots of fun! I really want to make this short so I can go back out to the party, but Maryland said it's important to my educational growth (whatever that means) to write in my journal every day. I think that's stupid because I might look small but I've been writing for decades! She also says that it's a good way to keep track of my own history, and then later, when I'm older I can look back on what I wrote. I think that's stupid too, but Maryland's really smart so I should listen to her, and she's kind of scary when she's mad.
Daddy said that I should physically be around six soon! He said about another year or two I should have grown to about the right height! Being a district I don't age as fast as the states do. That's okay though because I don't really want to grow up, not really yet anyway. Grown-ups have to wear stuffy suits and do boring paper work all day and then they're too tired to do anything fun! But that's not even the worst part, the worst is when their hair turns all grey and gross, AND THEN IT FALLS OUT! I don't want to lose all my hair!
But I guess being grown-up has benefits too. That's what Nevada, California, New York, and Louisiana told me, one day anyway. But then when I asked what they just winked and smiled like Road Island does before he plays a trick, and said they'd tell me when I was older. Then Virginia hit them in the back of the head and started lecturing them. States are weird.
Anyway everyone is wearing red, white, and blue today! YAY! Those are my favorite colors. There're daddy's favorites to! I think a lot of people like those colors actually. But that's good because it means a lot of people have good choices in colors!
For his birthday, I made daddy a HUGE picture of the entire family together, I even drew Puerto Rico and all the other territories, and I really hope he likes it! I spent a lot of time on it and had to use a REALLY big piece of paper. We have a really big family! And I put Uncle Canada and all his kids in it too, and I put Iggy and France and even Spain and Mexico. I even put in some of daddy's other friends. I really really really hope daddy likes, no loves, it!
I want to go back to the party now. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
Franklin E. Jones, The Washington District of Colombia
Well I haven't updated this in forever please forgive me but I've done the horrible deed of getting a life this summer. I'm currently on a road trip so yeah we have no internet, but I really wanted to get this up so I spent all day trying to get a damn wifi signal. I finally did… sort of. So I have been writing new entries I just have no way of getting them all up. But soon! Hopefully.
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