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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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12.16.2007 Report
It was after my divorce and I was left with three small children all under the age of 8 that I met my biological mother and an older step-brother that I never knew. The brother was a preacher and the divorce was right at Christmastime. I could not afford anything for the children, so the new family I had just met and my step-brother's church provided Christmas for myself and my children. So for Christmas I was given a family I never known and the grace and love of it all and my children did not go without that year. Lelia
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It has to be the Easy Bake oven I recieved when I was 8. It started me out on a lifetime of loving to bake!
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The best gift I ever got was when my children had their portrait taken. It was just beautiful.
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The best gift I got was when my mom got to come home from the hospital the day before Christmas. We were all so thankful to have her with us at such an importantant time.
One year when my husband and I did not have a lot of money for Christmas. He wanted to give me something special, so he gave me his high school class ring on a gold chain. He said that I was the only person he wanted wearing his ring and that this officially made me his high school sweetheart. I was very touched by this romantic thought.
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I remember getting a Madame Alexander doll as a child and that was my favorite of all time.
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Christmas 1998, when My mom gave me a plane ticket to see my now husband for the rest of the holliday.
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The best gift I've ever received was from the donor family that gave me the gift of life
by allowing me to have their Son's liver! ... God Bless and may you have happy memories forever!
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The best gift I have ever gotten was seeing the look on my childrens faces when they got Christmas presents. A few years back life was really hard on my family. We could barely put food on the table, much less buy Christmas presents. My husband and I discussed what we could do and we decided to sell some things on ebay so that we could get the kids something for Christmas. While they were at school I went to the library and got on the internet to put up some auctions. We sold the items at a fair price and were able to buy each of our three children a coat and one toy. On Christmas morning I had six gift underneath a picture of a Christmas tree. They were so happy that they all cried. So did I! If you ask them today what the best gift they ever got was.... they will tell you a coat and toy when we didn't think we were getting anything!
My ex-boyfriend bought me a 6 disc sony stereo.
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