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[realists]

[ simple text, straightforward and easy: ]

What are the birthday traditions on your home planets?

[ jyn hasn't celebrated a birthday in something like... fifteen years so to say she's out of practice would be a gross understatement. she tells herself this is cultural anthropology, her mother would be proud. TIME TO LEARN, time to attempt to live like a normal human being... ]

Comments

[antietam]

Traditionally you get a birthday cake with candles on the top. When you blow out the candles, you make a wish.

But I always figured you can make a wish without a cake or candles. As long as you don't tell anyone about it or it won't come true.

I don't know who made up all these rules.

[realists]

Why can't you tell anyone?

[antietam]

Maybe it would ruin the magic of it. If you tell someone what you wished for, they'll know to get it for you. No surprise there.

If you don't tell anyone and someone still gives you your wish, you'd believe in the power of your wish a lot more.

[realists]

That's stupid, wishes aren't real.