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\nMills also shared an adorable image of his father. \u201cThis is my dad, Gerald. He turns 104 on 12 July,\u201d tweeted Mills. \u201cAny chance I can muster 104 happy birthdays from Twitter? He\u2019ll be amazed and baffled in equal measure.\u201d The simple birthday wish turned into an adorable thread of people sharing images and birthdays of people they loved, with a majority of them featuring aged grandparents.\n
The tweet was flooded with replies and the centenarian received many more than 104 birthday wishes. The tweet garnered more than 423,000 likes. Adam Hill posted a picture of his young daughter and said he hoped she would live as long as him, and wished him as well. \u201cHappy Birthday Gerald. This is my daughter Flora who was born 12 weeks premature and has just come home to us at three months old. Hope she makes it to 104 too,\u201d read the tweet.\n
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Some shared images of their elderly relatives while wishing him. Joanna shared an image of her 101-year-old grandmother and wrote, \u201cHappy birthday Gerald! My nan, Bridget, shares a birthday with your dad and she\u2019ll be 101 this year! Hats off and many, many happy returns to these two very special centenarians and all the others on here!\u201d Another person shared an image of their baby granddaughter and wrote, \u201cCheers Gerald! My birthday is also July 12th, a toast to us! My new granddaughter thinks the secret to long life is being extra cute but I think you already know that by looking at your pic!\u201d\n
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\u201cStar Wars\u201d legend Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the series, wrote \u201cFor Gerald\u201d and shared an emoji of a cake. Even Stephen Fry, the English actor and comedian, got in on the act, writing, \u201cHappy birthday Gerald! xx\u201d Another person shared a picture with his grandmother and her sister while wishing Gerald. \u201cCan we get 105 likes for my 105-year-old grandma Mary on the left and 104 likes for her 104-year-old sister Tina in the middle? This is from my visit today with them where they each both live in their own houses on their own.\u201d\n
The simple tweet turned into a campaign and even made it to the radio. \u201cHappy Birthday Gerald from 94.5 KHI in Ocean City, MD,\u201d read a tweet, before linking a video of the host talking about it on the radio. Sharon Steed shared an image of her late dad sitting on the sofa next to an adorable dog. \u201cHappy birthday, Gerald!! My dad made it to 86 (this is him before he passed this past with my dog, Washington); he probably would have talked your ear off and eaten all the cake with you today!\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mills also shared an adorable image of his father. \u201cThis is my dad, Gerald. He turns 104 on 12 July,\u201d tweeted Mills. \u201cAny chance I can muster 104 happy birthdays from Twitter? He\u2019ll be amazed and baffled in equal measure.\u201d The simple birthday wish turned into an adorable thread of people sharing images and birthdays …\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":82808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moral-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82809,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82803\/revisions\/82809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}