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nick: i’ll always be here for you, sel. i always want to be that safe place for you whether it’d be us together or us as just friends. you’re really someone important to me. like i said i’ll always be here for you unless you tell me otherwise or change your mind.

The most gorgeous mom? Now you're just paying high compliments there. It's going to go all to my head. The biggest stress with me will always be that Khai is growing up way too quickly and that just doesn't sit right with me. I'm still trying to find that pause button. Letting go of the things that you can't control is the biggest thing, I think. That sounds amazing - I think the next time I'll be having a proper summer in Europe is when Khai is older since it's the biggest time I get to spend with her cause she's in school most the time, now. I'll live through you - tell me more of what you did. Now that she gets a say in what she wants... it's honestly easier. I don't have to think too hard. Just find a cake, a few decorations and she's happy. The hard part is getting her to narrow it down to two themes, max. She wants everything. It's at the stage of the year now that I can say wait for your birthday for things. Thank goodness.

good, i want gorgeous to have a very strong and specific association with me in your mind so that every time someone pays you that compliment, which should be daily by the way, i'm somewhere in the background of that thought — you're welcome, i'm manifesting it. and wait, five means kindergarten already? that is simultaneously the cutest and most devastating thing i've ever heard, i completely understand the pause button search because i watched gracie grow up and it genuinely does not slow down no matter how hard you will it to. should've kept reading too because you answered my question before i even asked it, very efficient of you. but i need to know — what is khai like at school? is she quiet and observant, or is she the one running the classroom? all arts and crafts energy or already stealing the show in school photos like her mom? and september is coming up fast, which means she's probably already coming at you with a mood board's worth of themes and zero intention of narrowing it down — has she started yet? because i feel like the negotiation process alone deserves its own documentary. also i think you would have completely lost your mind at the horses portion of italy, we got to ride a few of them, and i was obsessed even if i'm nowhere near your level — not even in the same zip code as your equestrian era, but i held my own.

nick: anything with you is always in a good way, i won’t deny that. yeah you have a point there and this was also unexpected but also not entirely unwelcomed, unless that’s just me 👀

nick: oh no it was a good ice breaker i will give you that. wasn’t expecting it so it caught me off guard in a good way i guess you can say 🫢

I'm laughing at the whole suspiciously close to 40s thing cause baby, you've got years to go until that happens. Lets not worry about all of that just yet, please? I think you need to enjoy your mid-30s for what it is before worrying about the big 4-0. That sounds like the most wonderful way to spend your birthday and I'm sad that I wasn't there to celebrate it. We'll have to do something when you're free. Lowkey birthdays are my favorite. My best ones are always whenever I have Khai with me and just get to chill with friends and family.

you know something is genuinely wrong when the most gorgeous mom i know is telling me to calm down about aging when by all accounts, you should be the one stressed, and yet here you are, completely unbothered and thriving, which honestly tells me everything i need to know about what good energy and balance does for a person — share your secrets immediately. and you absolutely should have been there; you would have loved every single second of it. it was just endless bikini days, the best chefs, summer in europe doing exactly what summer in europe is supposed to do — it was a whole aesthetic, and you deserved to be in it. but okay, khai at birthdays though — because i have seen the production value you bring to that little girl's celebrations, and the yoda cake for her fourth alone tells me she is being raised with exceptional taste and excellent theme curation, so i have to ask, does she get more fun to celebrate every year or does it just keep getting harder to top yourself?

Si. No hay problema. You're probably right. Rules, are more fun when you make them up as you go along. Karaoke is a vibe for sure. Bowling is dope though. Sounds like a good time to me to be honest.

haremos la mitad de la conversación en español porque somos así de geniales, obviously. and okay, consider yourself officially warned because i do not show up to bowl casually — i show up to win, and i say that with full sincerity because my wii bowling era was not a phase, it was a training montage, and those skills have transferred directly to real life in ways that should probably concern you. no bumpers, no mercy, just me and the lane having a moment. you asked for a fun night, and i'm delivering, just maybe don't challenge me unless you’re ready for that.

now that i've spent five weeks doing nothing but watching football, how does one move on from the world cup?? do i have to pick a professional team to support now or what? while my team didn't make it too far, i loved wearing my Brazil jersey and repping my culture. does anyone else feel more patriotic while watching sports or is it just me? i haven't felt this Brazilian in a long time. / @limelightblvdstarters

the honest answer is you don't move on, you just let the sports calendar swallow you whole and carry you through to the next thing — which for me is looking a lot like the commonwealth games right now. i've already been watching bits of netball and swimming and thoroughly enjoying myself, though i'll be transparent, the meme production from my couch has not come close to the level i reached during mccarthy’s save on messi because truly nothing will ever top that moment for me and i've made peace with it. but more importantly — you in a brazil jersey repping your culture for five whole weeks? you have to have the most adorable photos from that run. please spam the timeline with them, we deserve it, the internet deserves it, just do it.

Well, just want to say then belated happy birthday or ¡Feliz cumpleaños! to one of the queens of Disney. Who would turn down a night out with you? I don't think anyone would, really. What's these rules of yours consist of?

throwing some spanish at me? you clearly know your target audience, i respect it. thank you, or as we say in our language, gracias. and honestly, who said no to a night out with me hasn’t been born yet, so. as for the rules — i make them up as i go, very fluid system, very me. but i was more so thinking some late-night karaoke vibes, maybe a little bowling if we’re feeling chaotic, the kind of night that starts with “just one song” and ends with us closing the place down at 2 a.m. wondering how we got here.

happy birthday and just know that in korea you're still considered young. thirties are basically the new twenties here. i'm not sure about the gift situation, though. i could maybe get you a gift card or something, but wouldn't that be a little weird when i don't know you? and what do you even get someone who literally has everything? the pressure is real. as for me, my birthday is usually planned by either my friends or my team since it's something i have to celebrate with my fans too. i know it sounds very main character of me, but it's actually pretty normal in korea. so i usually spend a few hours doing a live stream, then i go out and celebrate with friends afterward. what about you? what are your plans? staying on said yacht or do you have something else planned?

consider me already on zillow because if korea is handing out a free decade, then i am absolutely planting roots and never leaving. truly the most compelling real estate pitch i’ve ever heard. and honestly, that’s the exact question i ask about taylor (swift) on a near-daily basis — she’s the one person i know who genuinely has everything, so you have to get creative. a collage, a card, something with actual thought behind it, but listen, a crisp twenty-dollar gift card has never once let anyone down, and i stand by that. but wait — so it’s less “fans plan something sweet for you” and more “you are contractually obligated to show up to your own birthday online?” that is a little unhinged in the most uniquely fascinating way. i hope you’re at least having fun with it and not just sitting there looking pretty and sad into a camera on your birthday. rare beauty is technically summoning me back because our second-ever perfume just dropped, and i probably should care about that, but italy has a very strong grip on me right now, and i think the yacht is going to win this one.