weirdest present

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dad was on the glowstone expedition to antarctica (here's the article, in case you haven’t heard about it), where it sounds like there were just tons of glowstones with barely any buzz lying around. and it was brook’s birthday this week, so dad decided to send her a glowstone necklace.

first of all, nobody report us to the police or customs or anything, k? mom was really annoyed by the gift, did this whole “what is his problem?” thing, and i think brook and i both kind of agreed. in a way, it was worse than the time when we were kids and he tried to smuggle us platypus eggs for xmas.

from what dad said in his card it sounds like everyone involved in the expedition took at least a few nice glowstones as souvenirs, since there were so many lying around, and i’ll bet there are thousands of people around the world who have some hidden away somewhere, so i guess it’s not really that big a deal.

it’s kind of weird that dad had it made into a necklace though, considering that even owning a glowstone is kind of illegal, but somehow he got it stained pink so it just looks like a giant piece of quartz. (he must know a pretty fast jeweler—he just got back from antarctica like last week.)

what’s funny about all this is that brook has always said she’s a mild sensitive. (but mom says that brook’s a mild hypochondriac.) i guess it wouldn’t surprise me if she was, but she pulled out the necklace without reading the card and was all like, “oh, rose quartz, pretty!” and then she reads the card and goes, “yeah, i can feel the buzz, it’s just really faint.” that’s my sister.

and also, i think the idea of having a glowstone creeps her out, but at the same time i think that just because it’s one of a kind she’s pretty proud of it. so we’ll see if she ever wears it out of the house or not.

i hope crazy isn’t too hereditary.


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