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Tally is not daft. She knows that when she opens a gift, the person giving the gift wants to see her looking happy or surprised or excited or amazed. And she understands why they want to see those things. After all, they've gone to all the effort of giving her something – so the least she can do is be grateful. And she is grateful. She really, truly is. It's just that, sometimes, she thinks that the whole present-giving thing is less to do with the person receiving the gift and more to do with the gift-giver. It's as if they think that along with the present, they've purchased the right to see her do things in a certain way.
Say the right things.
Make the right faces.
And Tally can do these things, but she needs a heads-up: a bit of advance warning about what emotion it is that she's supposed to be showing.