One of the best gifts I have ever recieved was when I was eight years old. It was a beautifully illustrated book of poems for children authored by, Robert Louis Stevenson. I would read his poems over and over, pretending I was the child he was writing about. I had this great desire to be able to write as he did. I still own this book over fifty years later. I keep it in a place where I can still take it out, hold it and read the fragile pages that expanded my imagination. I thank my parents for a life long lasting gift.
For my boyfriend's birthday one year I bought two tickets to a local amusement park. To make the present a little more fun I put the passes in a box and filled it with his favorite chips. When he opened the giant present he was a little surprised to see food, until he found the tickets in the middle. There were so many bags of chips in the box that they got stale before he could eat them all!" --Natasha, 18