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The sandalwood elephant A co-worker, originally from China, brought me a wedding gift several weeks before the 1978 date. Inside the box was a carved elephant of sandalwood. I was enchanted by this exotic gift. Months later, a fellow employee and I (we had both married around the same time) were comparing newlywed notes. He asked what I had received from “Nancy,” our mutual co-worker. When I described the gift he grinned and said, “I got the other two.” Apparently it was a set of three elephants that linked together. Mine was the larger “leader.” We both had a good laugh at our frugal friend. And then we laughed even more when he offered to give me the rest of the set (which I declined). Patricia M. Poland | Monroe, Union Power Cooperative |
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