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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Have you ever gotten somebody the perfect gift?
Rachel Wilkerson Miller definitely has.
If you live in New York and you've been to restaurants, every restaurant has to have a choking poster on their wall that explains, like, how to do the Heimlich on somebody if they're choking.
And a lot of restaurants will commission ones that are tongue in cheek or specific to them.
And it's something that my girlfriend and I had talked about when we first started dating.
Like, she would point them out in different places we'd go, and she pointed out a specific one that she really liked.
It was blue and white and had a kind of vacation theme.
Like, people are having dinner on a tropical island underneath these palm trees while this dude in formal attire is getting the Heimlich and a full hamburger comes flying out of his mouth.
So Rachel found the poster online, bought it, and gave it to her girlfriend as a housewarming gift when they moved in together years later.
And just, like, a couple months ago, she was just like, I love that so much.
That was the best gift I have ever received.
It's so special.
It makes me so happy every time I look at it.
And, like, you can't pull that off very often.
Like, that was a deep cut that I got lucky in terms of finding.
And then again, sat on it for two years until the perfect moment.
But to me, I feel very proud of that one.
Rachel, by the way, isn't just a great gift giver.