It’s Our Birthday! Ask Us Anything At Our All-Day A+ Birthday Party!

Hello and welcome to our sixth birthday party! We are so pleased to be here with you!
Here's how it works:

Below we've listed today's question-answerers, in order of appearance. Rachel, Heather, Laneia and Riese will be around for most of the day, and everybody else is working in 2-3 hour chunks.
You can ask us anything — anything at all! The primary focus, we anticipate, will be advice questions. You can ask a specific person (by @-ing that person at the start of your question) or you can just ask something and see who we decide would be the best answer-er(s) of your question.
If you'd like to drop in a question for a specific person who won't be around 'til later in the day, you can do that, and they'll answer when they arrive.
We hope t...

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