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I'm turning 40 today...

Musings on the season that makes me come alive.

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Janneke Scharff-Lemmers
Nov 10, 2025
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The weather in my country has been soft and sunny this past week, unlike the day I was born four decades ago. My mom tells the story each year of how there was a fierce snowstorm on November 10th, 1985. The midwife urged my dad to properly close off the ventilation ruster, because “this was no temperature for a baby to be born into.”

How times have chan…

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