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Happy 43rd birthday to you two lovely humans!! 🥳 Wait until you turn 62! A skin regime is replaced by wrinkles lol!! T, I hope you and Sofia go to a splendid restaurant and a great movie and S, hope something nice for you and Stacy is in store. You two ladies enjoy your birthday and day off! 🎉🎂. A well-deserved vacation for the two most hardworking celebrities I know!!!

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happy birthday!!! i hope you're both having an amazing day in between shows ❤️❤️

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Awe she got her hot tub 🥰. Dreams do come true lol. HAPPIEST of Birthdays to you both!

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This really has been a long time coming!

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Happy birthday! :)

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Sep 20, 2023·edited Sep 20, 2023

Hey Tegan (and Sara),

Happy birthday! I hope it went well and having to cancel a show didn’t make it feel sucky!

I personally hate it when my birthday doesn’t go as planned. I love to plan my birthday and what I and my parents will do. These days I have a very flexible schedule, but lists and organising things was part of how I felt like I had some control over my life while I was in the school system. That’s a long winded way of saying I’ve always liked my birthdays although I know what you mean about birthdays and Christmas sometimes feeling anticlimactic. Sometimes I plan it and then it sucks anyway, sometimes Christmas doesn’t feel right because it’s not going how I thought or I don’t have my mum’s whole side of the family there, or my favourite cousins can’t come, etc.

I do like to celebrate yours and Sara’s birthday though! Every year since I’ve been a fan, I watch (and add to) videos I made (just for myself) of clipped together parts of bits of your music videos over the years, then photos over the years, then the closest thing I can currently do to a Tegan and Sara concert, watch a whole bunch of recordings of songs, usually preparing the links in advance and putting them in order of oldest to newest. I also do a similar thing to celebrate my birthday and what I call my ‘Tegan and Sara anniversary’ which was the day I discovered your music.

I hope you both had a great birthday and day off! Hope you got to see your partners and Sid and all the fur babies!

Happy 43rd!

Phoenix, he/they/it, 16, Australia

PS: even though you may think otherwise reading this comment, i’m not a Virgo. I don’t really match my star sign though. (Sagittarius). Happy birthday to all the virgos!

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hey there, some unsolicited-but-affectionate advice from a humble student of astrology: we are sooo much more than our sun sign! I encourage you to investigate (with a healthy dose of skepticism) the other major placements in your birth chart, and soak in the logic of the planets and zodiac themselves along the way. many many people don't relate to their sun sign at first (myself included) but find much affirmation and greater understanding of themselves and others when they explore the whole picture beyond the shallow image of sun signs and "pop" astrology. astro.com is a great place to start. have fun! ♡

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(Sorry for the late reply)

Yeah, the website Sara recommended (I think it was last year in a substack post), tells you stuff about your birthday as opposed to your sign, I found that much more accurate. Though I didn’t do a deep dive as it was one of those ‘are you a boy or a girl’ websites. (For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m nonbinary)

Thanks for replying, astrology just isn’t my thing. But Sara’s website showed me, I relate way more to that stuff than I thought!

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hey no worries, no pressure! I'll have to go back and look for that post because I'm curious what it was that sara posted. whenever I get to meet them I'm certainly gonna pick their brain(s) about all this stuff

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For the record, Sara already agreed with me re the website not acknowledging nonbinary people. And in the post she was sceptical too, but interested.

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Happy birthday to us Virgos!

I wish we could all age like you 2, it seems like youre aging backwards sometimes!

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It’s like they turned 25 and (look wise) just stayed there! 😄

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Virgos unite! My birthday is a few days (and years) earlier than yours. It’s become a tradition for me to listen to the album you two put out when you were my age. I’m in my Heartthrob era right now. 🥰

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That's a really nice tradition!

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happy birthday Tegan and Sara! 🎉 🌚 🌍 you make me proud to be a virgo! In fact you inspired my Virgo playlist which of course included the most Virgo t&s songs

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would you feel comfortable linking your playlist? I'm always looking out for a good zodiacal curation

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of course here ya go! I also have a Pisces moon themed playlist and a Tegan and Sara supreme!

https://spotify.link/5LDeUbKBmDb

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ooouuu so much creative variety here! and a pisces full moon, you must have really felt that big lunation the week of 9/14! I've got heavy placements on the pisces/virgo axis too, and I'm a cancer rising so my Virgo moon is primary to my whole chart. it also happens to be on the same degree (26°) as t&s's Sun! they'd already been my favorite band for 14 years when I found that out, talk about affirmation huh! Anyway I followed ya, looking forward to exploring. I haven't made public any astro lists yet but have a monthly record n some thematic stuff including separated t&s fav lists: https://spotify.link/f4iwLEdHmDb

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Yes yes that week of Pisces moon, wow! Virgo Pisces combos for the logical yet emotional win! lol and thanks for following! I’ll check yours out too ☺️

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Happy Birthday you two!! 😊 43 wow, I hope you’ve both had an amazing day! 🎉❤️❤️

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Virgos are definitely top tier in my experience. Happiest birthday to you both!

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Happy Birthday! It’s my birthday too! 🥳

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Happy Birthday! I just wanted to the take opportunity to let you guys know that your music, banters, books/ writings, and podcasts you guys have been have really helped me get through a difficult time. I am forever grateful because I do not know how I would make it without you guys.

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Sep 19, 2023·edited Sep 19, 2023

happy birthday chef(s)!!! my roommate said I was a middle aged lesbian at heart (I am not even halfway to 40 LOL) and I am not in my "reading in a cedar hottub" era yet but maybe that doesn't sound like too bad of a time.

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One of those times was in Tulsa in 2016, I was there to celebrate with you! I don't remember if we sang to you, but I do remember it was a blast. It's been such a treat to watch this tour evolve, can't wait to catch another show on the last leg. Enjoy your lowkey day. Happy Birthday! 👯

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Happy Birthday queens!! 👑👑 Hope you have a great day off in NYC. See you early next month when it's Libra season and I'll be celebrating my birthday (or near enough) at a show ✈️🌴♥️♥️xx

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Happy birthday! I remember seeing you play on my 20th birthday (Sept. 20!)- one day after your 20th birthday at the Sidetrack Cafe in Edmonton. Seems like ages ago and also just yesterday.

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