That does complicate things. It took me a while to come up with some way around that - taking the economical route, a digital i...tem. [The inflection is weird because she was going to say "items".] There are some people around here who barter items... alternately if the new scouting mission comes back with positive results we might not be on the moon at all anymore. That would be great so it's probably not true.
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So I'm obligated, that's that. At least you'd have an excuse if it were the other way around - nobody here knows my birthday.
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Well, I certainly don't. What is it?
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The twenty-sixth.
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[She tries the syllable out. You can almost hear the smile in her voice.]
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[She feels faintly like she is having a human friendship fever.]
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