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‘It’s a reset moment’: why are so many people celebrating half-birthdays?

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‘It’s a reset moment’: why are so many people celebrating half-birthdays?
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In some places, a half-birthday allows you to learn to drive or join the army. But for others, it’s a way to embrace the midpoint of each year of lifeSix months after Lorraine C Ladish turned 59, she began to get emails – from fashion stores, the supermarket, the opticians – offering her a discount. Her half-birthday was coming up, the emails said. She used one of the offers to buy a magenta leather jacket and posted her celebration on TikTok. Ladish is a digital content creator who says she mak

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