Gift of the Magi by 0. Henry

"It is about a young married couple called Della and Jim who are poor and live a barely furnished rented apartment. It is the day before Christmas and they have both been working out what to give each other to show their love. The wife, Della, wants to give her husband a watch chain to go with the gold watch he inherited from his grand father, which he is very proud of. She finds it costs $21 and all she has is $1.87. She decides that the only thing to do is to sell her beautiful brown hair, which is so long it reaches to her knees. In what ever country or culture, a woman's hair means as much as life itself to her. But Della makes the sacrifice, selling the hair to a wigmaker and she buys a platinum watch chain with the money. Her heart pounding with excitement, she waits for her husband to come home. He returns at last, and when he sees her, he is dumbfounded. The present he has brought for her is a pair of beautiful tortoiseshell combs to wear in her long hair. Della assures him that her hair will grow long again in no time and holds out her hand with the platinum watch chain gleaming in it. Jim collapses on the couch, then says with a smile, "Dell, let's put our Christmas presents away and keep them a while. They're too nice to use just now. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs."

A practical minded young couple of today might point out that if the husband and wife had only discussed before what they were going to give each other, they could have saved themselves the waste. But the story deals with something that far transcends that kind of calculating logic. It concerns the beauty of the deep love between husband and wife.

I stumble upon this article in http://sgi.org/about/president/works/essays/recipe.html while i was trying to find article on the topic that we're going to discuss in Mirai Kozaru next week. I've listen to this story numerous times, often from other people, and usually the speaker in a meeting. but this time reading it myself, i felt a different feeling of the true message of this story. love is just so wonderful. but how often does a marriage ends up in total harmony and is 'happily ever after' ? i think im being very negative and bias here, but looking at what happen around me, i just feel that it is so so hard to see that in real life. anyway, i still believe there is true love somewhere out there.
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