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A Christmas gift idea that wouldn’t cost him a cent! When Dick asked me what I’d like for Christmas several years ago, I surprised him by saying I’d like something that wouldn’t cost him anything at all. He raised his eyebrows and said he liked that idea.

Even while we were dating, I had asked Dick many times to open doors for me. “It’s a gentlemanly thing to do,” I would say. He’d respond that I was strong enough to open my own doors. Every once in a while he would do it, but it was kind of grudgingly.

I told him that the Christmas gift I had in mind was that I’d like him to open the door for me without my asking for just for one month. I didn’t need anything else for Christmas.

He thought about it for a while, and he actually started that very day. Way before Christmas, he opened the car door and entrances to church, stores, and home. One month later, he continued to open doors for me.

Now, many years later, he still opens doors for me.

In fact, one evening when he opened the door for a woman friend of mine, she was quite impressed. Later she commented to me what a gentleman he was. Then she added, ”I’ll bet that’s why you married him.

I didn’t explain. I just smiled.

(By the way, he did get me another gift that Christmas.)