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pWhen I was little I’d ask my mother what I was getting for my birthday. I’d ask like the morning of my birthday. It always pissed her off because my birthday was December 27th./p

p”Look under that tree,” she’d tell me. “You want to know what you’re getting for your birthday? Go look under that Christmas tree.”/p

pWhen I got older I stopped asking. Then this last December when I’d been home a year she said “I got you something for your birthday.”/p

p”I’m still not getting a job,” I said./p

p”Why are you so miserable to me?” she asked./p

p”So what is it?” I asked her a little while later. She went into her room and came back with a little package wrapped in candy cane paper. I tore off the wrapping and I’m standing there with a little box of Clone Wars collectible cards in my hand./p

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