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When a friend found out the painting she’d given me had made its way to a charity store, I wanted to dig a hole in the earthAs the recipient of an unwanted gift, is it necessary to pretend you like it? This is what most of us are trained to do as children; for some it was our first experience of being instructed to lie.“Thank you,” I might have said to my grandmother, “for this frilly, itchy lace-trimmed dress identical to the one you gave my sister. I love it.” Continue reading...