Happy 50th Birthday to the woman in whose light I (literally) stood

 

Amen, Sandy. Amen. And Happy 50th Birthday!

When I first met Sandy Bullock, as her Miss Congeniality stand-in in 2000 in Austin, she was then the age that I am now.

She was 36 and I was a recent Texas graduate at 22. I thought she was THE COOLEST.

I still do.

Such memories, love and friends came out of those mere two months.

Some of my favorites.

And it was one heck of a roller coaster precursor to my move in August of 2000 from the Lone Star State to this City of Angels, that I now love so madly.

I will always just love her to bits.

And somewhere…far up in a closet…or way back in a storage space in Austin or Louisiana, I hope she still has an overly-gushing 2-page thank you note that a 22-year-old starlet wannabe wrote her.

 

xoxo,
BF

BF Asks: What thank you notes have you written that you’ll never forget?