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Such a Perfect Day [Open]

[Neil is having a cigarette, which isn't unusual. He's also naked from the waist up, which also isn't unusual. He is not, thank goodness, covered in glitter, nor are there bows in his hair. He's moving around, apparently tidying his apartment, so his image and voice are sometimes close to the device and sometimes off-screen.]

So... Father's Day. Didn't mean a thing to me.

[He crosses the screen's range in the distance, cigarette between his lips, picking up what appears to be clothing from the floor and is probably laundry.]

Never knew my sperm donor and don't want to.

[He disappears, then reappears crossing very close to the screen and the City is graced with a view of abdominals before he walks away again.]

Don't even know what he looked like...

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Maybe you got your good looks from him?

[He misses the compliment.]

I guess. I don't look much like my Mom, but she was kinda there when I was born, so...

...

[Let's try again.]

Then your father must be incredibly good looking.

Uh...

[He's got it now.]

Well, maybe. Thanks.

You're welcome.

What're your parents like?

They're nice. Father wants only the best for me in life and sometimes forces me into things but he means well.

I wouldn't want to be forced to do anything.

[And on that point, he is suddenly quite serious.]

[Raikov notices and raises his brow]

It wasn't anything bad. Just career changes.

Oh.

Still, you should be able to do what you want, you know?

... The way the world works now is much different than it was back in the 60s.

You're from the nineteen sixties? What, no 'flower-power' shit?

"Flower-power shit?"

You know, that whole Sixties peace thing. 'Make love, not war'.

... Must be an American thing.

Maybe. No 'flower power' where you come from?

No. Far from it.

Oh.

Mom says it was a fun time, but she was a flower-child or whatever...

Perhaps the USA was more relaxed.

Um, yeah. I guess you were still... Iron Curtain and shit.

You are correct.

Oh...

[Well, there's a conversation killer...]

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