The Only Gift Guide I’ll Do This Year

It happens every year, without fail. Around early December, Ken will peer at my phone on the kitchen counter and see dozens of incoming texts from my friends’ husbands. He’ll raise an eyebrow. Gift suggestions, I’ll say. For all of them?! he’ll ask. Yep. All of them. It’s what I do, I suppose. Some girlfriends

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A (Sorta) Gift Guide

Oh, December. Month of gift guides (guilty), shopping bags (guiltier) and free shipping deals (guiltiest, because I just bought approximately one thousand rolls of toilet paper, thank you, Amazon). I picked the wrong month to re-read this book, because with every box that arrives at my door, the pit in my stomach deepens. The stuff.

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