Out in the parking lot, Pam and Michael load his suitcase into their car while the entire Nashua staff watches from the window above. Afterward, at a diner, Michael confesses to Pam what he did, and says he plans to read it. Pam says he can't, because it would be a violation of Holly's trust. "I could read it," she offers. As Michael runs to get his laptop, Pam looks guiltily at the camera and says, "What? I'm not in love with her." Maybe not, Beesly, but you might be a tad over-invested.
In the Scranton conference room, Dwight is still half-assedly blowing up balloons and even more half-assedly brainstorming themes with Jim. At least he admits the "horse hunt" is stupid and lets it drop. Jim asks Dwight of he remembers a special birthday, and Dwight reminds us that the Schrutes don't celebrate them, since the Great Depression. Jim reminisces about his own seventh birthday, when his dad took him to the natural history museum, looked at fossils with him all day, and bought him a little plastic triceratops. "It was awesome," Jim says, the easiest-to-please seven-year-old who ever lived. Dwight agrees that that's cool, but adds, "You know what's even cooler than Triceratops? Every other dinosaur that ever existed." "Didn't see that coming," Jim tells us. He really should have.
Pam finishes reading Holly's letter on Michael's laptop, deletes it, and tells Michael that Holly still has feelings for him. "I can't tell you specifically," she says, "but it's not over." Which is exactly what Michael wanted to hear.
Kelly enters the conference room with the sad little party, and the sad little pile of gray balloons on the table like a stack of giant ball bearings, and her very own cake wreck. It says "Happy Birthday Kelley" and has a single Chiclet stuck in the middle of it. Kelly is not thrilled. Jim and Dwight explain that the Chiclet represents a pillow or a TV -- which means that the theme is her choice: she can pick an hour-long nap or an hour of TV. Kelly suddenly loves it. She picks nap, and Dwight herds everyone out of the conference room while Jim sets her up with a pillow and a blanket to snuggle under the conference table. "Too excited to sleep!" Kelly whispers to us when the lights are out and the door is closed.













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