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This is short and sweet but it literally just happened so I’m still soaking in the guilt and awkwardness of it. I hope someone can get a little laugh out of this Today is my brother’s birthday. I’m still in high school, and today, my art teacher approached me with a little potted plant and asked if I wanted it as she was cleaning out her room and didn’t want it anymore. I love plants so I accepted. Not even ten minutes ago, I got home from school and went outside where my brother was sitting and wished him a happy birthday. I still had the plant in my hand and I set it down near him to put it in the sun, when he responded with a “oh, thank you!!”, in a tone that suggested “thank you for giving me this plant!”. I immediately picked up his tone and redirected it by saying “my teacher gave me this plant today because she no longer wanted it”, so that he would get the hint that I wasn’t giving him the plant. He didn’t say anything other than “that’s cool!”, and then we moved on. Usually I...