The money for my gifts went to children at a local orphanage instead. And I learned that the delight I felt at Christmas was not something to be taken for grantedOn Christmas Day in 2012,when I was 14, I didn’t procure a single Christmas present.
This wasn’t a surprise. It was what I had asked for. A week before we returned to Nigeria for the Christmas holidays, or I decided that instead of presents,I wanted donations to buy presents for the children in the local orphanage close to my family home.
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Source: theguardian.com