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The birch show.

All right, so we're about to start texting with and for Emily here. Emily does a secret

Santa with a bunch of her friends. Everybody has agreed like, hey, you guys, we all kind

of broke except that one woman over there. So let's kind of keep the presence that we're

gonna buy for each other under. Did you say $30 this year? Yep. But every year, there's

one woman in the group that goes above and beyond buys everybody like these really expensive

gifts. And it's making Emily and all everybody else in the group really uncomfortable. Emily

has been tasked and then tasked us with texting her friends saying, hey, your generosity is

really, really touching, but knock it off. So how do we start this? I think Cassie should

start it because she's so into it. Hey girl, Merry Christmas. It's the Grinch. I don't

know how you have this conversation about telling someone else how to spend their money.

I honestly don't know how you open it up. That's the thing. You don't make it about how

much money she's spending. You make it about how it's making the other people feel.

Even though it's unintentional, I'm a hey girl. Hey is what I say, but whatever you want

to start it with and be like, can we chat about Secret Santa for a sec? But by doing this,

we're letting her know that we're ruining every past Secret Santa that she's ever done.

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