The gifts of the magi, readers of the famous O. Henry story about Christmas in a long-ago recession may recall, were well meant but useless. Jim gave Della a set of combs for the long hair that, on Christmas Eve, she cut off and sold to a wigmaker to pay for his present - a chain for the watch that he had pawned to pay for the combs. This fond and foolish couple would have been safer buying each other underwear.
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