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I often see people agonizing over what to buy friends and family for Christmas and birthdays, even though they always have a ready answer.
Buy books. Buy them again and again. Make it a yearly tradition to add to people’s library, and maintain a theme. My wife’s father is a Churchill fan, and so our shopping for him is a breeze. My nieces are heading into high school, and by the time they go to college they will have a complete collection of Shakespeare (in the paperback series by Yale).
For the kids, it’s a necessity. On the last Noel-Levitz Freshman Attitudes report (go
