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MNN47-4
You just cannot use ほしい and ~たい with third person (I.e., not “I” or “you”)
ジョンは車をほしがっています。 ジョンは車を買いたがっています。
がる also means something like “appears to be”, and is used with ほしい and Verb+たい when the subject is third person.