Though I cannot say it has been an easy journey, I can say this with all certainty: This past year I have been given the gift of perspective, and for that I am thankful.
This is a true gift to you all to be in this room with these people.
"I am deeply grateful for the prayers and good wishes from home and for the willingness of the donor family to share this precious gift of life with me during a time of great tragedy for them, " Tucker said in a statement.
With this in mind, we have assembled some practical, thoughtful gift ideas for the special people in your life.
With app-powered toys becoming something of a must-have gift this Christmas, parents protective of their expensive, sticky fruit juice-free tablets may have cause for concern.
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And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.
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But, as with the sudden defection of Senator Arlen Specter this week, it is another unexpected gift to the new president.
At least now Mr. Allen is able to laugh about this with a relaxed warmth that seems new and appealing, and may be the gift of age.
But at least this has the virtue of being entirely consistent with the church's view that life is a gift to be given and taken away only by God.
He has a gift for bubbles, too, like this lively, rich, berry-inflected wine with New World ripeness and Old World grace.
In the spirit of the history of this -- and as a nod to what might have been -- we leave you with a parting gift of music.
The most popular gift is mithai (Indian sweets), and shops are filled with a spectacular array specially prepared for this festival, from thickly cut squares of barfi (a fudge-like sweet, often coated with a thin film of edible silver leaf) , to soft syrupy gulab jamuns (deep-fried balls of dough) and spongy rasgullas (sweetened cream cheese balls flavoured with rose water).
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