A Perfect Gift By Sedaris Analysis

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The moral of the story show what makes a perfect gift and what it says about the giver. In paragraph 8 Sedaris talks about he gives hugh chocolates for valentines day and he recieved a carton of cigarettes.until sedaris quit smoking and decided he needed an eighteen-century scientific model of the human throat.(Sedaris,paragraph 8)

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