22nd birthday.

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It's Ben's 22nd birthday today. Last year he was living by himself in Berlin. This year he's living at home in Wheelers Hill, still by himself much of the time, but with family and friends not so far away, geographically speaking. Like that ever-expanding spirit ball in those interminable episodes of Dragon Ball Z, energy is building and one day the health problems will be blasted away.