In the United States, holiday gift giving is important not only for the usual reasons, like showing friendship and love.
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That's what makes friendship interesting: we bring new things to the table, and if all we do islike exactly what our friends like, we'll all end up bored out of our minds.
There can be no doubt that taken together with strengthening bonds of friendship among like-minded governments in an increasingly tense world, passage of the pending FTA's is clearly a deal Congress should not refuse.