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My boyfriend and I both have our birthdays in June. They are only three days apart so it’s always a competition to see who is going to get the better present. Last year I got a new digital camera and he got a day at the races, I won! The year before I got flying lessons and he got new shoes, he won! So this year I was not going to be outdone. For a month before our birthdays I had started dropping hints, showing him catalogs, asking which item he preferred in magazines and sometimes just asking him outright what he wanted for his birthday. I never got an answer of course. He would always say, “Oh whatever”. This wasn’t because he didn’t know what he wanted but because he wanted to win the game! A week before my birthday he began smiling and smirking a lot. I asked him what was wrong and he said nothing, just that he had bought my present and was convinced he would win this year. So not to be outdone I started looking online. Then I found it. The wristwatch of his dreams! The cool rectangular men’s wristwatch was the elite in men’s wristwatches and I had seen him swooning over it quite a lot. I snapped it up and sure enough I won again. I had been given a beautiful set of crystal champagne flutes and while they were lovely, they didn’t compare to the joy he got out of my present to him! I’m starting to think that I’m getting good that this game! Now if I can just find the cufflinks to match it…