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Every year, my family convenes in what I can only describe as a gift-giving brunch pajama dress code and with a piece of nature that probably shouldn't reside so close to my mother's nice couch in the living room.
Meredith Fineman: I'm a Jew Who Celebrates Christmas. So What? Meredith Fineman 2011
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Every year, my family convenes in what I can only describe as a gift-giving brunch pajama dress code and with a piece of nature that probably shouldn't reside so close to my mother's nice couch in the living room.
Meredith Fineman: I'm a Jew Who Celebrates Christmas. So What? Meredith Fineman 2011
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Experts call the gift-giving, outings and physical contact "grooming" - a way of gaining a child's trust and ultimately getting them accustomed to sexual behavior.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Rex, the gifts on 3 Kings 'Day may be common still in many areas of México, but as early as a Christmas Eve Dinner that I was invited to (by a thoroughly Mexican family-NO U.S. connection at all-I had met their son in Australia) in 1958 in Mexico City, the gift-giving after midnight on Christmas Eve was beginning to take hold.
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It did not transform his personality; however, he did drop his habit of making gift-giving a tit-for-tat experience.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: True Generosity Is The Key to a Lasting Relationship Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2011
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I'll leave it to you to determine if these gift-giving behaviours were "obtuse" or "stupid."
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What Connie found objectionable about Conrad's contingent approach to gift-giving was not that he might want something expensive in return for buying her something expensive.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: True Generosity Is The Key to a Lasting Relationship Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2011
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We are excited to announce that our new online Inhabitat Shop will feature a hand-picked assortment of supercute Escama bags as a means to aid our gift-giving readers and the Brazilian women who handcraft these beautifully original designs.
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What Connie found objectionable about Conrad's contingent approach to gift-giving was not that he might want something expensive in return for buying her something expensive.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: True Generosity Is The Key to a Lasting Relationship Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2011
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It did not transform his personality; however, he did drop his habit of making gift-giving a tit-for-tat experience.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: True Generosity Is The Key to a Lasting Relationship Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2011
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