LEAP YEAR DAY greetings to you and your favorite leap year baby.
Just think, if you were born on Feb. 29, 1956, that would make you a Sweet 16 today, and among the friends in my Facebook realm who were born on this day are Linda Comeau of the Upper Saco Valley Land Trust and Full Circle front man/guitarist Rick Hensley-Buzzell. Linda is turning 17 in leap years, and Rick, 13.
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