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Increasingly desperate Partiful updates about America's 250th birthday fair from her husband Dan!

A wrenching text

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Bess Kalb
Jun 29, 2026
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Friends!

Our amazing, gorgeous, brilliant rockstar America is turning the big 2-5-0 this July (though she looks as smokin to me as the day we met!) and those of you who know her know it’s been a suuuuuper tough year for ‘Mer. One thing she loves more than ANYTHING is her birthday (haha fireworks anyone?), and this year I thought we would go ALL OUT and throw a rager called the GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR! Gonna spring for everything she loves — flags, ribbon dancers, hot dogs, a special musical guest, and of course: Educational dioramas about individual states. We have to cap it to 40,000 friends so RSVP by May 1 and we will make sure we have enough grill fixins for everyone! For EXTRA credit, record a video or write a note about how much you LOVE America and we’ll read them to her on the day! See you guys there!!

Much love,

Dan


Hi, Team Meri’s Birthday!

Thank you SO much to those of you who have RSVP’d :) Love you guys. Just wanted to add that we just got confirmation there will be SWAG BAGS for everyone who attends and…make sure you’re sitting down…Snow Cones! Also, since we’re going to have a professional photographer there (time for a new insta profile photo??) make sure you look FRESH AS HELL! Also, plus ones are totally welcome and feel free to share with anyone I might have forgotten! Again, there’s still time to RSVP, so smash that “YES!” button and see you there! Can’t wait to see the look on ALL your faces when the surprise musical guest takes the stage! Wooohooo!

Big hugs,

Dan


Guys.

To those of you who haven’t RSVP’d yet…

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