Holiday Gifts

From a post about the meaning of presents and Irish wedding cups.

The first is permanency. I ran into this problem when picking out a wedding gift for my friend Megan earlier this year. We've known each other since we were 12, and I wanted to give her something she and her husband would always have, would remember where it came from, and would actually use. I grew up in a house with a mother who knows the story behind every piece of crystal and china and interesting bowl and who has been kind enough to pass a lot of them down to me, and I wanted Megan to have a little bit of that. But the trouble is finding something both gorgeous enough to keep that long and useful enough to have out. I found something -- an Irish wedding cup -- that didn't score high on the useful factor but topped the charts on the meaningful scale.

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