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Health & Fitness

Luck Be A Lady

Vegas holds a special place in Juliana's life and the excitement builds for the birthday trip for her sister Cheyenne.

With less than two weeks between Chicago and Vegas Juliana is giddy with anticipation.  Well…as giddy as someone who is incapable of expressing emotion can be.  She talks about the upcoming trip throughout the day, even randomly saying, “I just can’t believe it’s almost here!”  You would think it we were going to celebrate her 21st birthday instead of Cheyenne’s as we continue a tradition that we began 5 1/2/ years ago…

…March 25, 2007…Don and I arrived in Las Vegas with Juliana and Chris my brothers and sister.  Since Juli is the oldest of the kids between my sister and me, none of the others were old enough to attend this rite of passage.  In fact, having arrived in Vegas the day before her birthday proved just how unwelcoming Sin City can be to the under-aged.   At every turn Juli was asked for her ID to which she obligingly admit that she would not in fact be 21 until midnight.  Although she was not gambling or drinking, they shooed her off the gaming floor to stand alone on the other side of adulthood.  (to read more visit www.forjuliana.org)

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