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What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?

By: Jacinta O’Halloran (View Profile)

As I pulled the slender box from under the tree, my mind raced with possibilities. Ripping the paper away, I found a small box of coloring pencils. “Huh?” The attached note read “you fill my life with color, now go fill yours,” and it included a certificate to a local art class, something I’d been feeling too busy to sign up for myself. I burst into tears. What’s your gift giving—or receiving—high point?

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Without a doubt, the absolute best gift I ever received was when I asked my wife to marry me and she said "yes". Nothing else even comes close.
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love this and my favorite gift was a jacket
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All three of my sons.
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iv been very sick and cant work which means no pay and little Christmas may God bless us you and yours!
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A few years ago-when my son was 15, he was saving for a new car. He was involved in sports at school, and I took pictures of he and his teammates, to try to give them all some good memories. I had been dong so since he was about 6 years old. Our budget did not have the room for a new DSLR camera (the D70 was new at the time), but LO AND BEHOLD there was a new camera under the tree! My husband and son had split the cost-and my son did not get a car until he was 18- but he willingly sacrificed his hard earned money, so that he and my husband could buy me a camera. That is one of the only times I have cried on Christmas morning!
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My favorite gift was a bracelet that I had laid away and was still needing to make 2 more payments and my mother made those payments and surprised me with the bracelet for Christmas. I wear this bracelet all the time since her death. Here she had found out in November that she had liver cancer and did something special for each of her 5 kids. The note with the bracelet stated I won't die until after Christmas so that we all can have a very special christmas together. It was a very nice Christmas with great memories.
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I loved the when my brother and I got a Nintendo for Christmas!
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A Cruise from my Fiance for New Years Eve.
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A homemade ornament made by my kids, with their pictures on it !
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