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A Tale of Woe, Ep. 50 : Happy Birthday!

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"Claire, sweetie, you can't hide under that sheet all day! Come on out and get it over with.."

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[one hour earlier]

"Claire, what's wrong, did you make your wish yet?"

"Yeah, Liz, I wish I could go home. But I can't help thinking about how I'm another year older and seemingly no closer to getting out of this place."

"Well it certainly won't come true if you don't hurry up and blow them out!"

"Really, Liz? I'm supposed to be the one that's crazy, but you still believe in birthday wishes?"

"Sounds like somebody's trying get a good old fashoned birthday spanking"

"Oh God, Liz! Never talk like that again, after what I've seen - and felt - of what happened in this place - to Mary!"

"Mary again? You're still going on about that?"

"Yes! She's real, and I'm still having these dreams of her.. you promised me you'd help me find out more about her. Did you ever find out why she was sent here, or how she got out? That would be a good birthday present, Liz"

"Oh, Claire, I still can't find anything. Somebody hushed it up really well!"

"It was probably her, I bet she never even told her husband! God knows if I ever get out of here, it'll be pretty hard to tell anybody about it.. but who knows if that'll ever come up, if I never get out of here I'll never have to worry about it.. when I think of all I've been through, it feels like I've been here for years already!"

"Claire, it hasn't even been one year since you got here.."

"Well, it's easy to lose your sense of time in here"

"You wanna talk about losing track of time, it seems like only yesterday when you were born! In September of 2000 we were still eating up all the canned food and MRE's that Dad stocked up on the year before when he was turning the house into a fallout shelter. Look at this picture I took of your Mom in '99 !"

"Holy shit is that a real gun?"

"Oh that whole outfit was just some cosplay thing she wore to the Con that year. She thought it'd be funny to get a picture like that with all the stuff Dad was hoarding."

"Yeah, I was a Y2K bunker baby... born 9 months after everybody freaked out! I guess some people found the situation romantic.."

"In your case it was more about the relief when the world didn't end. Lots of people worked all year to fix all the old COBOL and FORTRAN code, Dad should know - he was one of them! When the clock struck midnight, and nothing exploded and the lights stayed on, Dad popped open a bottle of champaign and him and Julie ran off to the 'bunker' and I dind't see them again until the morning.. late morning, that is, both very hungover and her pregnant!"

"Eww!!! <giggling> Liz! Gross.. <snort>"

"Claire, that's the first time you've laughed since you got here! I'll be as gross as I have to be to see you laugh!"

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[five minutes after Liz leaves the hospital]

Nurse: "Alright, honey, visiting time's over. Let's get that robe and pajamas off. Nope, no gown this time. Doc says you can just go around the rest of the day in your birthday suit.."

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