What will you bring to the ask-public White Elephant Holiday gift exchange?

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I’ll bring it. I have The Beach Boys on vinyl. I think it’s a ‘best of’ album. I’d check but it’s in the bedroom and Jon is sleeping. It was one of my mother’s favorites.

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