The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories

I would have liked to promise Riccardo that I’d buy him a tuxedo on the installment plan, as we’d bought Mirella’s dress, but a man’s suit is more expensive, and then a man doesn’t have to find a husband. So I had to acknowledge that I couldn’t burden our budget with this superfluous expense. I remembered when Mirella and Riccardo were small childr

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