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Except for one gift, everything she listed for

my siblings was a gift certificate to a restaurant.
The exception was our first stop, a honey farm.

Mom wasn’t sure what restaurants existed where
my youngest sister lived, so she purchased a bucket

of honey and had the store mail it to her. For my

other brothers and sisters, Mom named off the
restaurant she thought would be their favorites.

There was a steakhouse for a brother, a Chinese
restaurant for a sister, and so on. Each time she

would buy the gift certificate, she would say, “This
is something I’m sure they will use.” As we

continued through the list, I wondered what
restaurant she would choose for me. I was curious

about which one she thought would be my favorite.
When we finished with all the gift certificates

she was buying for my brothers and sisters, it was

lunchtime. We went to eat at a place she enjoyed
going to with my father before he passed away. It

had an all-you-can-eat salad bar with chicken,
Mexican food, and many other things besides salad

items. We ate our fill, and I got each of us some
ice-cream for dessert.

As we were leaving, she mentioned that for
me, she had gotten something she thought I needed.

That even made me more curious since, for my

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