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Leap Year

In this Feb. 20, 2012, photo, twins Victoria, left, and Bethany Lawler, born Feb. 29, 1996, pose next to photos of themselves on their first birthday in 2000, in West Richland, Wash. The girls celebrated their fourth birthday in 2012. They will celebrate their fifth birthday on Feb. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Kai-Huei Yau)

Old Uncle Harry’s full of cheer
to have an extra day this year.

“I’m getting older now”, he’ll say,

“so I can use an added day,
and there’s no doubt at eighty-three
I’ll take all the time they’ll give to me.”

The Bard of Sherman Avenue

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog