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:Cueball: Flowers seem so... trite. Something homemade? Easy to look halfhearted.
 
:Cueball: Flowers seem so... trite. Something homemade? Easy to look halfhearted.
  
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:[A frame-less panel of Megan sitting at a computer, also with hand on chin.]
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:[Megan sitting at a computer, also with hand on chin.]
 
:Megan: Valentine's day is a corporate construct.
 
:Megan: Valentine's day is a corporate construct.
 
:Megan: But hard to opt out of.
 
:Megan: But hard to opt out of.
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:Megan: It's such a contrived ritual. But maybe rituals are necessary social glue.
 
:Megan: It's such a contrived ritual. But maybe rituals are necessary social glue.
  
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:[Zoomed in on Cueball panicking.]
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:[Cueball panicking.]
 
:Cueball: Forty presents. No, ''none!'' No, give her five items and then steal two from her.
 
:Cueball: Forty presents. No, ''none!'' No, give her five items and then steal two from her.
 
:Cueball: OK, breathe. Keep it together.
 
:Cueball: OK, breathe. Keep it together.
  
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:[Zoomed in on Megan sweating, still holding the stapler.]
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:[Megan sweating, still holding the stapler.]
 
:Megan: And what if he gets me something and I don't reciprocate?
 
:Megan: And what if he gets me something and I don't reciprocate?
 
:Megan: Prisoners dilemma!
 
:Megan: Prisoners dilemma!

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