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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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The best gift I've ever been given was a trip to Jamaica. The thing that made it so special was that it was a honeymoon and came with a great husband.
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I've been blessed many times throughout my life, but the most impressive moment came 7 years ago, when I was still a university student, paying high tuition fees and living on a small merit scholarship. I remember I had to visit the university cashier's office every three months to fulfill my financial obligations. That particular December I simply couldn't produce the whole sum. I'd been looking for a job for a long time, without success. Ashamed, I still went to the cashier's to respect the submission deadline. When she saw I was missing 50 dollars, she immediately opened her purse, fetched a bill and added it to my money. With tears of surprise and gratitude in my eyes, I promised I would return it to her as soon as I could. But she wouldn't even hear about that. Moreover, a couple of days later she showed up at my campus room door carrying a beautiful Christmas tree, a bag of decorations and one of food. I will never forget the gift of love I received from that modest angel of God.
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The best gifts are the ones that my daughter makes me.
The best gift I ever received was from God.I prayed for a job with health insurance because of my husband's failing health.Even though I had not worked before my wish was granted.Then my husband had successful heart surgery and I gained a bunch of new friends.
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The best gift I have received is a loving family who accepts each other as they are.
We all have our own idiosyncrasies and our fair share of arguments, but when someone is in need we always put our differences aside and sick together to help one another.
No we are not perfect but the love that binds us together is priceless.
The Best gift I received was from my mother, when she gave me life!
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Being advised I was melanoma free
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Christmas is a time that means I get to fly home to see my children. That is my gift.
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The Best Gift ever for me was my FREE Salvation from God. It has blessed me so much all of these years.
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It seems trivial, but as a teen in the 80's I longed for a phone for my own room. I didn't care if I got anything as long as I got a phone for Christmas. That year, there was a box under the tree that was shaped just like a phone box. Of course I just could not wait and while my parents were gone I got a knife and slit the tape, opened the gift, saw that it was a purple phone, jumped and danced around the house, got the tape and taped over the slit tape and thought Christmas eve would never get here!!
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