Your relationship with the graduate often deems how much you have to save for their graduation present.

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So, unless the graduation present is needed immediately for something, why not tuck it away and let it grow?

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Clara is sentimental about the Sara Lee shares her father, a longtime employee at the food company, gave her as a college graduation present.

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Later that day Anna Condino, 24, walked in for a fitting, ready to cash in on the college graduation present her father had signed up to purchase.

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It was given to me as a present on the occasion of my college graduation a year ago.

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