Ms. LOVE: That's a really great feeling for all of us that sing and that we--the gift--'cause I say that our gift is a gift from God, and surely Luther's gift was a gift from God, and he was a very good friend of mine.

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Daumier spent the last seven years of his life living in a country cottage, the gift of his friend Corot.

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Before I get accused of living offline in the last century, the area I think social product opinions can work very well is in the difficult art of selecting a gift for a friend, family member or colleague.

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In her chapter on the moon, she recounts how a friend of hers received a mote of moondust as a gift from a suitor who worked in a lunar research lab.

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And, true to form, when he couldn't find a bag he liked as a gift for a friend, he decided to make his own, coming up with an entire line of archly simple, high-quality leather bags with a unisex flair.

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