What is the most important gift you have received that had influence your  life?
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My dog.  I got her for my 50th birthday.  She has brought joy and laughter and so much love to my life.
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My gift to the world is telling them about Jesus. He Loves you, and will save you. Salvation is the Greatest Gift in the world, and it is free.
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a grand baby?\n\nLOL\njust kidding\n\nbut that was the best gift i ever got! Beautiful grandchildren.
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The top of my list is for everyone to have huge smiles & warm hearts. I just want to see everyone happy. Not sure why but I can't seem to think of anything tangible that I really want as a gift.
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It totally depends on the friend. It is always nice to make something or really put a lot of thought into the gift. That always makes a person feel really special.
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awwww...this question makes me sad...I can't remember the last gift I have received
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I have come to this point by a combination of personal choice and inheritance.  Inheritance granted me the natural gifts I have and choice developed them.
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Nothing, but thanks for asking. I'm blessed in many ways, though I don't HAVE everything, I have what I need. Just found this question interesting, which made me stop and think .... I need for nothing. Nice reflective moment, Thanks.
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A gift that you have been wanting forever but never had the time or the money to buy it, i.e., a cd, cd player for your vehicle, bigger/better tv, shoes, coat, etc.\nMom of B & D
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The best gift is a "non-material posession" a true gift from the heart.  Money doesn't say I love you.
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well the best gift is your self and your time.\n\nI am taking my mom to her fav restaurant that she will never go to herself because she thinks it cost to much (an its not really that bad)
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Probably the best christmas gift I have ever given was last year.  My father passed away a few weeks before christmas and he and I were very close.  He usually asked me to help him get a gift for my mother.  He had asked me just before he died to get him a mirror for my mother as he had seen the one that I had bought my daughter.  When he died I wanted to carry out his wish for mum to have the mirror so I bought one and wrapped it and labelled the card from dad and myself.  It was a very emotional moment when I gave it to my mum.
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My fiance is currently taking care of his mother who has Alzheimer's for the last 8 years. I gave my dad a kidney. So to some extent it could be true but, my dad was less then  perfect and I still gave him the gift of life. Seriously I did.
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My step-father was dying of cancer and my mother was taking care of him the best she could.  They were really strapped for cash and because he was so sick, they seldom left their modest home.  They lived 650 miles from me, so I couldn't help much.\n\nThe first week of December, I sent a Christmas card and wrote of a happy memory inspired by the picture on the card.  I put a dollar in the card, and on the back of the envelope I wrote,"On the first day of Christmas, my daughter sent to me....".  The next day I did the same thing, using two cards (mailed separately), each with a dollar.  The personal notes were always well thought out, some were funny, some were sappy, but they were always from the heart.  I made sure that every card was different.  By the twelfth day, I had a little extra money and I put fives in each card.  They needed it more than I did.\n\nAlthough the money was needed, it was the personal notes that they liked the best and the joy of being flooded with Christmas cards.  My mother told me that my step-dad looked forward to getting the mail every day to see that days cards.  My mom hung them everywhere!  It was a way of not only making one day special, but rather almost every day for almost a month (it took a while for some of the cards to get there).  Only a few years later, both of them passed away, but I still have the pictures they took of all of the Christmas cards that filled their home that year trying to express how much they meant to me.
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A lot of things make me happy - chocolate, red wine, good food, but what makes me truly content is having time to do what I want. Not being a mother or a lover, although I love those roles, but having time to just please myself, by reading, or shopping, or gardening, whatever. Time is the greatest gift as far as i am concerned.
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A handmade card.  A single flower.  A small trinket gift.  \n\nor\n\nA small favor that makes a big difference.  Anything to make their life easier for a moment.\n\nor\n\nWords of encouragement or anything to make that person feel special.
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There are so many !! One of my fondest memories was when i was 8 years old. mama and daddy recorded me and my 2 little sisters as we opened our gifts. Boy were we loud !!! screaming and yelling  "thank you mama thank you daddy". that year i got a Chrissy doll. i'm showing my age LOL. she was like a giant red haired barbie and you could make her hair long or short by turning a button in the middle of her back. my cousin and i are the same age , so we both got one. But what i love most is hearing we little girls and hearing mama and daddy's voices. sadly , i lost them both in 1991. six months apart. the other favorite holiday was last year. my sisters didn't give me anything of my dad's when he left us. i don't blame them because i went off the deep end after losing my parents. when i finally got my life together i asked them for something of my dad's. one of my sisters had my dad's wedding ring. it's beautiful, wide gold band with 3 1/4 carat diamonds. i always wanted that ring. when daddy didn't have it on i would get it and wear it while i was at their house. it was funny, mama and daddy joked about having to frisk me before i went home to make sure i didn't leave with one of their rings.LOL. anyway, i asked my sister if i could have daddy's ring. she adamently said "NO". it just broke my heart. my sisters were not fair when it came to splitting what my parents had 3 ways. i asked her for that ring for 5 years. last year my birthday fell on thanksgiving day. we were all at my sisters house having our family dinner when out came a beautiful cake with far too many candles on it LOL. i was surprised. i read all of the b-day cards and opened the gifts everyone had given me. i noticed everyone moving to one side of the room and my nieces all had cameras and video camears pointed at me when i opened the last gift. IT WAS MY DADDY'S RING !!!!!!!! I started bawlin' and ran to my lil sister to hug and thank her. my sis is an itty bitty thing and i'm NOT...she told everyone to protect her so i wouldn't sqeeze her to death !!LOL i have that ring on my finger right now and that is where it will stay until one of my nephews is old enough and getting married. that is when i will pass it down. so, that's just 2 of many wonderful holidays. as a matter of fact my b-day is on sat. and we are having thanksgiving then. everyone has to work on fri. so we decided to do it on sat. so everyone can be there. we're having it at my sisters house and she lives an hour 1/2 away. well , there's my answer.  OH !!! and you are soo right about time screaming by. That is sad.  Have a great Thanksgiving. God Bless.\n                                                                   Deanne