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Best Christmas Gifts · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: Got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's, what's the
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  Speaker 1: best Christmas gift you've ever received? Well, let's ask our
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  Speaker 1: American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Alma Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama's turned Needville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. Look, Christmas, it's almost here. So, uh, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have a favorite Christmas gift you've ever received.
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  Speaker 2: We've shared this before because it's like a real thing
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  Speaker 2: for us that we talk about it a lot. So
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  Speaker 2: we had one Christmas that things were so slim for
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  Speaker 2: us financially. Mom and dad were really struggling.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up kids, growing up kids, y'all were in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: We were in Mississippi and they had the conversation with
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  Speaker 2: us and they said, girls, we're so sorry, but this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be it. We just don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember saying, Dad, it's okay, and he was
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  Speaker 2: so upset. You know, he's so upset. The next day,
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  Speaker 2: our aunts, our uncles, our cousins, our grandparents show up,
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  Speaker 2: car after car full of trash, bags of presents. They
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  Speaker 2: each come in and they start putting them under the tree.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll never in my entire life forget that feeling
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  Speaker 2: right there of our people showing up when I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm gonna cry, I feel like our people showing
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  Speaker 2: up when my parents felt like they couldn't do anything,
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  Speaker 2: they were there. And I will never ever forget that
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  Speaker 2: Christmas for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't necessarily the gift.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, the gift. That
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  Speaker 3: was the year that we really really discovered that your
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  Speaker 3: gift is your family. And if anybody knows us and
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  Speaker 3: knows our family, our family is everything to us. You know,
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  Speaker 3: my nieces and nephews are my own kids, just like
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  Speaker 3: minear to my siblings and our parents. But I remember
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  Speaker 3: before the week before that, I woke up. I was
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  Speaker 3: in the seventh grade, I think, and I woke up
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  Speaker 3: and I see the glow of the TV in the
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  Speaker 3: living room and I walk in there. I guess I
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  Speaker 3: was going to get water out of the kitchen, and
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  Speaker 3: my mom is sitting Indian style on the floor and
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  Speaker 3: she's making something and she's got a bowl of water,
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  Speaker 3: she's got flower and I'm like, what in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Mama was very artistic, so Mom was making those these
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  Speaker 3: dough ornaments precious moments.
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  Speaker 2: Dough ornament so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she and then she would glaze them and
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  Speaker 3: they were so beautifulful and our aunts were like they
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  Speaker 3: were the most most most I don't know what I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to say, but they were the most meaningful, you know,
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  Speaker 3: gifts that they received because she wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that she had something for them, you know. And Betty
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  Speaker 3: and I were talking about that recently, like those are
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  Speaker 3: the treasures and you realize it's not about getting the
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  Speaker 3: most expensive biker that it is about truly doing something
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  Speaker 3: from your heart. Like my mom would make us different
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  Speaker 3: ornaments even throughout the year. She would you know, she
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  Speaker 3: was a basket weaver, she was a crocheaker. So I
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  Speaker 3: have when I was putting these on our tree this year,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, that's those are the ones that matter the
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  Speaker 3: most to me.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Last Christmas, Mom gave us bags that we were
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  Speaker 2: all at my house and she gave us, gave us bags.
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  Speaker 2: We're opening up and it's some of her face. We
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  Speaker 2: had no idea that she would be gone, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just a few months later. But she was giving us
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  Speaker 2: some of her things, like her baskets that she made,
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  Speaker 2: some of her that they were we were so excited
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  Speaker 2: as if we had just gotten the winning lottery ticket.
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  Speaker 2: We were so happy and so grateful, and we have
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  Speaker 2: them displayed, and they're such special treasures. And it's because
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  Speaker 2: she had them, she touched them, she made them, she
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  Speaker 2: gave them.
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  Speaker 1: My I'm thinking back to my childhood. My favorite Christmas
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  Speaker 1: gift of all time actually has a bigger meaning now
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  Speaker 1: that I'm adult than when I was a kid. So
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I was the one who
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  Speaker 1: always woke up first for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, we were all I was. I was trying
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  Speaker 3: to listen for the Yes, me too, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So I get up before everybody else, and I
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  Speaker 1: go into the living room and there's there's two because
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  Speaker 1: my brother and I that we add stockings right, each
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  Speaker 1: one of their names on them. And then there was
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  Speaker 1: two big stuffed dogs like Bassett hound type dogs in
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  Speaker 1: the in the and the dogs were holding onto our stockings.
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't read cursive yet. I could read print,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't read cursive, and the stockings were written
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  Speaker 1: in cursive, so I didn't know which was So I
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  Speaker 1: climb up in one chair and I sit next to it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to disturb it because it might not
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  Speaker 1: be mine. So then I'd climb down, I'd climb up
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  Speaker 1: in the other chair, and I'd sit next to that one.
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  Speaker 1: I went back and forth for a whole bunch, and
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  Speaker 1: then I finally, like, you know, an hour and a
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  Speaker 1: half later, I was able to finally convince everybody else
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  Speaker 1: to get up in the family. Okay, that was my
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  Speaker 1: favorite Christmas memory. I'm telling my grandfather about this as
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  Speaker 1: he's in the hospital days before he dies, and he
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  Speaker 1: says to me, I was there. My grandparents had come
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  Speaker 1: to visit for that Christmas, and he was. They were
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  Speaker 1: on the sleeper sofa in the living room. He watched
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. It was one of his favorite Christmas memories.
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  Speaker 1: And so I got to then as an adult, I
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  Speaker 1: saw that same moment from his eyes then, and it
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  Speaker 1: made that such an even more important. Wow, isn't that
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  Speaker 1: a neat story?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost as need as your whole family.
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  Speaker 3: Shit, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: The gifts that I love the most for my kids
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  Speaker 3: are the letters, because I would tell them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they's like, what do you want? I would just want,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in words of affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: Girl.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I was like, just write something. It doesn't cost anything.
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  Speaker 3: Those are my most treasured things. And it's so funny
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  Speaker 3: because I have a whole drawer. I had to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: switch it to a bin. And just recently I thought,
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  Speaker 3: what are they going to do with this drawer full
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  Speaker 3: of letters and cards that I've saved. These are my
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  Speaker 3: treasured letters. And then I told somewheer. I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's what I want y'all to do. Have a big
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  Speaker 3: old bonfire, throw them in there and let the smoke
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  Speaker 3: from all that rise up to me. They'll be with
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  Speaker 3: me in heaven. And she was like, that is the
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  Speaker 3: most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Alma's button.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Nivald Huberly bro listen, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.