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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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Oh, I think it was the kitten my daughter gave me. I had other cats, but I
couldn't help myself--> I fell in love with sweet little Hubert.
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a laptop computer!!
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I got an engagement ring from my husband.
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My best gift was 30 years ago when my huysband gave me my engagement ring. I loved him then and love him more now. It was the best Christmas of my life as well as the best decision of my life.
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my Freedom
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My best Christmas ever was when my ex-husband gave me my mother's ring and a pair of diamond earrings. That he made me go on a man hunt through the house to find. He put notes all over the place for me too lQQk and I finally found them in the medicine cabinet. =O)
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My mother knew I alway wanted a cedar chest. One Christmas she handed me a small box and inside were some potatoes and a note that read "This gift is just small potatoes, you're real gift is in the bedroom". She had gotten me a cedar chest.
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MY BEST CHRISTMAS THUS FAR WAS WHEN MY HUSBAND WRAPPED UP 10- $100 DOLLAR BILLS AND PLACED THEM INSIDE A CAT TIN. IT WAS USED TO PURCHASE A BRAND NEW
COMPUTER!
BUT MY BEST PRESENT IS YET TO COME, A BRAND NEW GRAND DAUGHTER, WHO IS DUE ON DECEMBER 25TH! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HER! :)
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my best gift was a bicycle when I was 11. It was my first one and didnt expect it as money was tight when i was young.
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My best gift was for my last birthday. My boyfriend ordered it online. On my actual birthday it hadn't arrived yet, so he told me that the restaurant at Disneyland was booked. He rescheduled for that Friday night and after the fireworks we went to the Haunted Mansion. He talked the staff into letting us have the lobby to ourselves without letting me know. When the cast member closed the doors he proposed with a 100 year old ring. Afterwards they let us take the elevator down alone.
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