The Gift of the Magi
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Della was a woman who lived in New York, and she didn't have a lot of money. It was Christmas Eve and one dollar and eighty-seven cents was all that belonged to her; no more, no less. She desperately wanted to buy her husband, Jim, something nice for Christmas, but she hadn't the money for it.
Although they weren't the richest people in the world, the couple had two possessions that they took much pride in. One was a gold watch that Jim's father and grandfather, before him, owned. The other was Della's hair.
Della decided that she was going to give something to Jim for Christmas no matter what. So, she sold her hair for twenty dollars. With her $21.87, she searched town for Jim's watch, and bought one.
When Jim came home, he owned a peculiar expression on his face towards Della's hair. She handed him the chain. When she asked him to take his watch out to wee what they looked like with each other, he could not. He, too, had sold his most prized possession for a set of combs Della had been wanting.
They decided to put the gifts away for a while. The couple sacrificed something of theirs to buy a gift the other could not use at the time. Still, they were happy and continued on with their lives.
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