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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 683992" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Your thoughts are always worth considering my friend; even when I don't agree with them. </p><p></p><p>Oh I wasn't even thinking of a big gift. I think it just got to me that any small "thoughtful" gift wouldn't be appreciated anyway. If it were worth anything, it would be sold. If it were just sentimental - well he's a guy and a thoughtless one at that. Not big on sentiment. </p><p></p><p>I know I gave him a lot, but you know, my parents gave me a lot. My first car was my mom's and then my brother's before me. The second, my father bought. He "took" a cow and calf that were "mine" as "payment", but since he gave me the cow in the first place, it wasn't as though I paid for it. In fact, my third car was his too; when my mom died and my father was quite ill, my brother and I had power of attorney - since my father could no longer drive, we used his cars and eventually I traded in the ones in my possession for a down on a new one...I was graduating from law school and needed a reliable car. It was the first I ever paid for myself. They gave me money all through college. They were just always "there". My first impulse is to give to him. It goes against my nature - and I have to really work on it - to not immediately "give". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 683992, member: 17309"] Your thoughts are always worth considering my friend; even when I don't agree with them. Oh I wasn't even thinking of a big gift. I think it just got to me that any small "thoughtful" gift wouldn't be appreciated anyway. If it were worth anything, it would be sold. If it were just sentimental - well he's a guy and a thoughtless one at that. Not big on sentiment. I know I gave him a lot, but you know, my parents gave me a lot. My first car was my mom's and then my brother's before me. The second, my father bought. He "took" a cow and calf that were "mine" as "payment", but since he gave me the cow in the first place, it wasn't as though I paid for it. In fact, my third car was his too; when my mom died and my father was quite ill, my brother and I had power of attorney - since my father could no longer drive, we used his cars and eventually I traded in the ones in my possession for a down on a new one...I was graduating from law school and needed a reliable car. It was the first I ever paid for myself. They gave me money all through college. They were just always "there". My first impulse is to give to him. It goes against my nature - and I have to really work on it - to not immediately "give". :( [/QUOTE]
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