Will you celebrate this day in any way?

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2 years ago I changed one of my really good friends’ Facebook account to pirate-speak without her knowledge and it was the funniest thing. She had no idea that such feature existed so she was going crazy thinking that her account had been hacked or in her own words “had a virus” lol The best part is that she would never in a million years have suspected me as the culprit because she’d left her account open and unsupervised countless times before and I had never been one to sabotage it. So I might do something like that again this year to another unsuspecting matey ;)

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