I spent a half-hour at the card shop looking for a suitable birthday card for a family member who is an intellectual, with sophisticated tastes. A jocular card about the anatomical changes that accompany middle age, or one containing an earnest, sentimental verse written in script, would not go over well. Similarly, I could immediately eliminate any card featuring Donald Trump (though there were some pretty funny ones), a Peanuts character or the word "special."
Fortunately I managed to find an innocuous card with a perfectly acceptable nature scene and no verse whatsoever. My search was an entertaining one, though. Who knew there would be a market for birthday cards not only in Spanish but also Polish and German, as well as some purporting to be from the dog and the cat?
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