eleven (anon text) ♞ ❝you'll be smarter--more grown up and a better daughter or son.❞

[limitstorm]

Maybe this isn't the kind of thing anyone should be thinking about...

Does it make sense to celebrate a birthday after everything that's happened?

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[ the name attached to this account reads Haruka Takahashi ]

If you want to, then do it. If you don't, then don't.

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[limitstorm]

Concise.

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Yes.

Is it a certain someone's judgment that you're afraid of, or is it something more general than that?

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perma-anon text since i forgot to specify;

[limitstorm]

I'm not really afraid of anything, just wondering if it's in bad form. I don't usually celebrate my own, so I didn't know.

♥ what I figured!

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No?

Then why the smoke and masquerade routine?

[limitstorm]

Smoke and masquerade?

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Yes.

That is, unless you don't have a name to start with.

[limitstorm]

Oh.

If I do decide to celebrate it, I'd like it to be a surprise. This way's easier than filtering. There's always a chance you get it wrong if you filter something.

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That's very true.

It's very hard to erase something that's been said, no matter how quietly or out-of-sight it might be.

[limitstorm]

You can get rid of everything else, but you can't get rid of an idea once someone says it. Can't unhear, can't unsay.

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Yes. Even stitches leave scars.

Is it your birthday, or someone else's?

[limitstorm]

Someone else's. I don't celebrate mine.

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Does this person want to celebrate theirs?

[limitstorm]

I don't even know if they know they have a birthday.

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But you know?

[limitstorm]

Yeah, I do.

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How strange.

[limitstorm]

Yeah, definitely.

But I might as well use that information.

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Will it have any meaning for them, if you do?

[limitstorm]

I don't know. Maybe.

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I would say, I hope you'll prepare for disappointment, just in case, but it sounds like you already have.

[limitstorm]

He's the kind of guy you can't really expect the best result out of.

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Ha ha.

If that's the case, then good luck.

[limitstorm]

Thanks.

I'll need it.