A strange sort of gift.

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A friend of mine has recently moved into a new house and I went to visit her yesterday. She has already managed to decorate a few of the rooms and she has done a very good job of them. After I had a good look round, I could not help but notice that in every room , on most of the walls there were photographs of other people with their children. So I asked her why she had these photographs on her walls, and would she not be happier with some nice paintings or artwork ( she is quite artistic herself). She told me that these photographs had been given to her by her friends as housewarming gifts. She also mentioned that some of them would get upset and be really off with her if she did not have at least one photo of them and their family hung up where everyone could see them. I thought at the time that this would be a strange thing to give as a housewarming gift. I can remember when people gave you items that would be useful in the new house, not pictures of themselves.