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THINGS I WOULD LIKE FOR MY BIRTHDAY

1. Money
2. Unmarked bills with non-sequential serial numbers
3. Loose diamonds
4. Money
5. Gold bars
6. Gold bars are kind of hard to move, though
7. They're heavy and not easily liquidated, also clunky
8. Money

THINGS ALICE WOULD LIKE FOR HER BIRTHDAY

~~1. Vege~~
~~1. World peace~~
1. ...Bunnies?????

THINGS NORMAL PEOPLE LIKE FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS

~~1. Money~~
1. No bad guys ruining their lives
2. TV...s
3. Stuff they like
4. ?????

THINGS HARDISON WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Video games
2. Robots
3. Stolen cell phones
~~4. Can you steal the internet?~~
4. The bank of Iceland
5. Pretzels
6. Doing stuff with me ?

THINGS ELIOT WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Cooking
2. People to punch
3. Bad guys to punch
4. Sterling to punch
5. I would like Sterling to punch too

THINGS NATE WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

~~1. Alcohol~~
1. Alcohol
2. Forgiveness

THINGS SOPHIE WOULD LIKE FOR HER BIRTHDAY

1. Artwork
2. Diamonds
3. Fancy jewelry
4. Clothes
5. Shoes
6. Shoes should have been #1
7. SO MANY SHOES
8. For Nate to stop being so stupid
9. I bet princesses have a lot of cool stuff though

THINGS ISHIMARU WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Justice
2. More of those cool bleach pen thingies
3. Red

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What do you think makes something a good present? Like a birthday present. You're supposed to give somebody a thing they'd really like, right? And if you don't know what they'd like, you ask them about it and maybe they tell you.

What if they tell you the stuff they like and you don't like it? Because you think it's not a good present or whatever. Does that make it a bad present?

If you're the person being asked what you want for your birthday, are you supposed to not ask for stuff that would make people feel bad about giving it to you?

...Also, why do people give each other presents on Christmas instead of giving them to Jesus? It's not everyone else's birthday on Christmas.

I mean I guess maybe it's some people's but it's not everybody's who gets presents on Christmas.

...And why isn't "Happy Birthday" a Christmas carol, then?

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I think it doesn't matter so much what you're giving or getting as a birthday present...just the act of giving in the first place is what counts, right?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly by asking for things that someone else might feel bad about giving you...but if they're your friend, they wouldn't feel bad about giving you anything, if it's a gift and they got it for you because they wanted to..

[Chihiro you sweet summer child.]

I also don't see why people can't sing Happy Birthday on Christmas...I think that might be nice, actually.

Oh, hi, Fujisaki!

What if the thing the person wanted was like...a big snake. And you were afraid of snakes. Wouldn't they feel bad about asking you to give them a snake?

Hello, Alice-san.

Well...I suppose they would, if they knew that I was afraid of snakes. But if it was really important to them, I would try to do whatever I could to get them the snake anyway, even if I had to get someone else to help me.

...What if everyone's afraid of snakes?

Oh. Um...that would make things a lot harder...

I would do my best, but if I couldn't overcome my fear of snakes, I guess I would just have to tell them I couldn't get them the present they wanted the most, and apologize.

Oh.

...Yeah, I guess that would be okay, wouldn't it.

Like I said, it's not the present. It's the thought that counts. And you can't always get what you really want most of all, so then you just find something else just as nice, or even better.

Hey, Fujisaki?

What do you think you should do if the person only likes one thing?

Hmm? One thing and nothing else?

And...there's no way to get that person the one thing that they like?

No, you can, but it's just kind of a bad present.

[There's a bit of a pause before Chihiro responds.]

So the present that they like is a bad present...

I guess it all depends on what the bad present is, exactly.

What if it was, like...jazz music.

Jazz music? Do you think that would be a bad present, Alice-san?

[IS JAZZ MUSIC, LIKE, INHERENTLY BAD he just doesn't know.]

Jazz music is super bad.

That doesn't make it a bad present though, really...

It's just, um...bad taste in music, right?

But wouldn't you feel bad giving someone jazz music?

I would, if they didn't like jazz music.

What if you don't like jazz music?

Well...even if I don't like jazz music, I'd still get it for someone if that's what they really wanted as a present, if I could.

And that's not weird?

I don't think so.

People do weird things for their friends all the time, right?

...Yeah, I guess they do.

So...that's not bad. At least, I don't think it is.

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