Fake and retiring

There is this tricky problem that I haven't solved again this year, perhaps I should set it as my task for solving it next year.  The problem of being cheerful and happy together after the interjection.  The interjection that throws everything off kilter, a little, off balance because my reaction and yours are so different.  The best I have done so far is pretending it doesn't matter until it doesn't.  Fake it till you make it, but faking it can be so tiring. 

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