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Terry Senate lights the candles on his birthday cake with his friends at his surf shop in San Clemente, Calif., May 2, 2011.

Terry clinks glasses with his friends on his birthday at his surf shop.

Terry touches up a surfboard that one of his friends shaped and brought in his shop to show him.

Tommy Witt, of San Clemente, Calif., picks up his new board at Terry's surf shop.

Terry takes a picture on his new smart phone of Brianna Coleman, of San Clemente, Calif., holding her boyfriend Tommy Witt's newly shaped board in his workshop.

Terry and his friends celebrate his birthday at his surf shop.

Cat 'Shaolin Punk' Parsons, of the OC Roller Girls Roller Derby team, fixes her make-up at the Wizard Mountain Comic Con at the Anaheim Convention Center, April 30, 2011.

Donning a mask with Twilight character Jacob Black's face, J.R. Hipolito, center left, plays against Darren Newton during a promotion of the video game Marvel Vs. Capcom III at the 7evens Gaming stand.

From left, Adam, 9, Allison, 6, and Anakin Bautista, all of Lynwood, Calif., pose for a portrait with Batman (a.k.a. John Whitt, of Minneapolis, Minn) at the Anaheim Comic Con. "I like to meet the movie stars and the action figures," said Angel Bautista (not pictured), the children's father.

Visitors of the Wizard World Comic Con take pictures of cosutmed superheroes.

Comic books are displayed for sale.

Shaunn Lawrence, left, of Los Angeles, takes a break in his $1,200-Dumbledore costume. Lawrence, a professional costumer for 33 years, made the costume himself after taking measurements and sketches off the original during an exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Beverly Hills. "I had to use cotton gloves when I did it," he said.