Unexpected Gift, Unexpected Time

When my 40th birthday was approaching, my wife asked me what I wanted. ‘A surprise party,’ I replied.
Unexpected Gift, Unexpected Time
Our gifts to loved ones and friends can be as small as a bouquet of flowers to a wife, a letter of love and appreciation to a parent, an ice cream treat to a child.
Jeff Minick
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In the movie “Finding Forrester,” a reclusive novelist gives this tip to his young protégée: “The key to a woman’s heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.”
Now there’s a piece of worthy advice—and not just applicable to women.
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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