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Gifts for the Giver: What We Gain When We Give

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Gifts for the Giver: What We Gain When We Give
Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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Writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie once said: “Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”

Last year, I missed the birthday of an 8-year-old grandson. Having noticed on a recent visit to his home that he enjoyed driving nails into a board, I sent him an age-appropriate toolbelt and tools I’d found online.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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