Dear Larkin,

Don't know when your birthday occurs, but mine's today (July 1). So I'm using my b'day as the perfect excuse to celebrate yours. Besides, it has been a personal tradition of mine, to celebrate the day of my birth by doing something nice for another. In fact, the opportunity sort of threw itself at my feet:

This afternoon, while strolling down Noe Street after stepping off the N Judah,

I discovered someone's medical papers scattered on the sidewalk. They looked important, apparently a pending lawsuit by a male nurse who was injured on the job at Davies Medical Center. No phone number, but fortunately his full name and address were on page one.

So I enclosed my "Jehovah's Queer Witness" calling card along with his papers, sealed the envelope, stuck a stamp to it, and dropped it in a nearby mailbox. No reward or contact expected, but who knows? I sense something fortuitous in my good deed for the day.

This is not a cheap birthday card, so I'm leaving it unmarked, that you might enjoy presenting it to another. (See you manana, at the tacqueria.)