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DECEMBER 16, 2022

My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. My mom shook me awake in the dark. Today we flew back to Florida.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” She agreed.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

In 2017, she bought an Instagram account from a fashion blogger (she had been a model right out of high school); at that point, she already had half a million followers of her own. I went into charity shops, asked to borrow clothes and then asked people on the street to take photos, and I posted them,” Graziano says. “I

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MAY 26, 2022

It was a life-changing gift. The people I had in front of me were not naked; they had their clothes on. This article was published in November 2017 and has been updated. When I was 6 years old, my father bought me a violin. At the age of 10, I started to perform small concerts. It didn’t work. It felt fake. I found balance.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’m working on taking time off for visits, but in the meantime I’ll reconnect the old-fashioned way by writing, sending cards throughout the year; little gifts the family might enjoy, too. I often think I need new clothes, but when I clean out or organize my closet, I realize I have lots of options and everything I need at my fingertips.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Leigh Burgess is a creative strategist who uses her gifts to help others. With every escrow they close in 2021 and 2022, they donate a $400 Costco gift card to a person or family in need in Maui—families like a single mother of four who has cancer or a young father with a daughter who has multiple sclerosis. Leigh Burgess. Dany Garcia.

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