"My favorite...was a small picture framed with construction paper, and reinforced with colored toothpicks..."Do you like it?" asked the small giver excitedly. "I used a hundren gallons of paste on it."...There were other gifts-the year of the bent coat hanger adorned with twisted nose tissues and the year of the matchbox covered with sewing scraps and fake pearls-and then the small home-made gifts were no more. I still receive gifts at Christmas. They are thoughtful. They are wrapped with care. They are what I need. But oh, how I wish I could bend low and receive a gift of cardboard and library paste..."