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Odd gift Page 2

A big bell, I think the leper's society will appreciate it.

As an extra gift I purchased my wife Dawn a packet of the Oreo cookies for Christmas because on our Florida holiday in two thousand and three we woke too late for breakfast in our hotel and so shared a packet of said American biscuit for our breakie!

Anyhow I was telling my friend Clive about this present and his facial expression was one of surprise. Though, I didn't explain the backstory and, I suppose, out of context such a story would sound odd!

Did you twist it, lick it, dunk it?

I was listening to some of the girls from work the other day chortling about another colleague who had bought her partner a box of plasters for Christmas. They weren't even 'fun' plasters with pictures on.

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