The Gift of the Magi

By Third Coast Daily - Dec 23rd, 2010 04:00 am

“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.

Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas”

So begins O. Henry’s classic holiday tale in which a young couple sacrifices their most prized possessions out of love for the other, highlighting the true spirit of the Christmas season.

Enjoy:

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“Silent Night” performed by Milwaukee Choral Artists as part of TCD/WMSE’s 12 Songs Holiday Project. Did you know you can subscribe to Backstage with Mark Metcalf through iTunes? It’s true!

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