A crumpled grey party hat beside a deflated pink balloon and a loose ribbon on a lilac background.

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Dane Cook

I never throw parties. Ya know why? Because afterward you always walk around going "What the fuck did they take? Where's my mom?"

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Our interpretation.

The explanation for avoiding parties begins with missing possessions and escalates to a missing parent. That change makes the anticipated aftermath absurdly alarming. The speaker turns the ordinary worry about what guests might take into a larger comic reason for refusing to host them at all.

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