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“For my 40th my brother tracked down the exact model of bike I had stolen when I was nineteen. Not a similar one — the same frame, the same year, the same slightly ugly green. He found it on…”
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“He had complained about his chipped office mug for most of a decade, to the point where it had become one of the three things everyone knew about him. So for his 40th we had it copied in bon…”
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“For her 30th we did not get her a thing at all. We paid for a year of the climbing membership she had been saying she would get around to since roughly her 27th, and the four of us went with…”
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“My partner cleared out the shed. That was it. That was the present. I had been going to do it for two years and it had become a low, permanent hum of guilt every time I walked past the wind…”
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“For Mum's 70th the four of us wrote out every dish she used to cook for us, from memory, and put them in one hardback notebook. We got most of the quantities wrong. Two of us remembered the…”
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“We asked everyone who had ever worked for him — about forty people over twenty-odd years, several of whom took some finding — to write one line. Just one line each, no more, because otherwis…”
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