[Autosave is for Wimps]

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This year I don’t mind what gift you buy me, as long as it’s not bought from THEM

This year I don’t mind what gift you buy me, as long as it’s not bought from THEM

The very next day, you gave it away…

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“Oh don’t get me anything,” my Dad used to say in his gentle manner in the run-up to every Christmas.

You always knew he didn’t really mean it. But what did he mean? When I was a child, I imagined it was one of those adult-to-child euphemisms for “Please go away, I’m busy”, and so I’d buy him a book.

When I became a teenag…

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