( Clementine laughs softly when he mentions Omar adding like a leaf to make the meal better. She knows- She knows in their world it's impossible to really celebrate it. They've all lost track of the dates, and they're just trying to make it from one day to the next. )

In a couple of the groups I was in, they tried. When I was with adults, they really wanted to hold on to some of that.

( They wanted to keep their traditions, to decorate the trees, and all the rest. )

I never really taught AJ about it though, no. I don't think he'd believe most of what it was supposed to be about. ( That's her fault. She focused so much on helping him learn to survive. She didn't want to lose him- not again. Material goods have no meaning to them. They generally can't afford to give anything that holds actual meaning to them. Giving in general is a difficult concept for AJ to understand. )