When you're a little girl you should be treated like a princess, not some criminal on the run.
Max was a criminal on the run. So Dr. Brennan's probably sublimated those feelings as a way to cope.
And now she's probably trying to justify it all by saying that a kid's birthday party isn't important. But it is!
I would imagine so. I've...never...been thrown a party either. So... [looks away awkwardly]
You too?
No.
[shakes head in disbelief] Wow. My dad was a drunk and he threw me a birthday party every year. The only time I ever saw him really sober.
[sympathetically] It's probably why birthdays are so meaningful to you.
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