Dear Hillary,
Happy Birthday from us all. Thank you for everything you do. We are all still with you and will never leave your side. Ever! We wish you a wonderful year, a speedy recovery, and health and happiness for many years to come. You remain our North Star, the one that guides us over unknown terrain and turbulent seas. Your example inspires hundreds of millions worldwide. Your stamina and drive infect us all with a will to keep going no matter how difficult the path. We are the grassroots ... your grassroots that you activated.
No woman has ever, in this country, done what you have done. We know you stood on the shoulders of giants, but you, Hillary, are a giant upon whose shoulders, many will climb. You have inspired them to do that.
When we were little girls, none of us thought about turning 70. Maybe we thought about turning 14 or 18. None of us, then, were thinking about what we would have accomplished. We were thinking only about what we might do and how we might get there, but look at you! Look at what you have done!
We wish we could sit down with you for a glass of wine ... or two ... to toast your birthday, to toast your mom for having you (birthdays are most important to moms, and I adopted yours after mine passed - as you know). Since we cannot, we Still4Hillers are here to wish you a wonderful birthday. Cheers! No regrets, Hillary! We did it all. The cards were stacked against us, but we survive. We thrive with you at the tiller. Keep steering us as always, captain. This ship will stay afloat and find safe harbor with you at the helm.
We love you, Hillary! Happy Birthday!
This rose is for you!