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………………………Over the years Jac and I had accumulated small collections of things that we displayed around the house. Most of the items were birthday or Christmas presents. Everything on this table in the living room under the large picture window, which had belonged to  Jac’s mom, were Christmas presents we gave to one another over  time. The antique decanters on the silver tray Jac gave to me. The Victorian glass bells I gave to her. There is one decanter that sits at the corner of the table that is especially wonderful. It has a beautiful faceted round stopper, and just below the stopper and the lip of the mouth is a silver band. However, it is the silver overlay that surrounds the entire decanter that is magnificent. It depicts lotus flowers floating in water, and fireflies all in silver. There are spaces allowing the glass to show through as part of the design. That was a present I gave to Jac. What do you give to someone who has everything she wants, and wants NOTHING!……At the rear of the table are two very large and tall candelabra. It has ten candles on two tiers and hand wired crystal drops of different sizes and hand wired crystal flowers….some with individual petals all over it hanging from arms that extend from the center. The center has a series of different shaped glass pieces stacked one on top of the other until it ends at the top with a beautiful tall glass elaborate finial……Every year at this time there is a large antique show in Greenwich CT. Jac and I usually went “just to look”……One of the vendors had these two candelabra on display and my eye was immediately drawn to them…..Jac saw me paying TOO MUCH attention to them and came over and quietly said…..”no”…..I said…”I was just looking”….she gave me one of her “looks”, and she replied “Ok…let’s keep moving”…..Before we left the show I paid the candelabra another visit, and Jac said….”Lou….we don’t need them, and where would you put them, they are so big….come on let’s go!”….so back home we went…..I have to say I thought about them quite often over the next few weeks, and regretted not getting them……..You know the feeling when you want to kick yourself in the butt for not following your instinct and desire!…..Oh well I saved myself a lot of money!…….On Christmas morning, after our breakfast of our traditional Stollen, we let each other gather each others presents and put them under the tree. After we opened all of the beautiful gifts Jac said ….I have one more thing, but it’s on the sunporch….I thought what????? Out we went and there were two HUGE BOXES!!! At first I couldn’t imagine what was in them, and then I thought…”no she didn’t!!!!”…..oh yes she did!!!! She had secretly gone back to the seller, and told the vendor to hold the two candelabra and she would be back as soon as “I ditch my husband”…..Jac arranged for them to be delivered to our house the day before Christmas Eve when I  wasn’t home, and put on the sun porch which in the winter we really didn’t go into much…….I was shocked…They are still two of my favorite presents!!!!……She sure played me like a fiddle!……She often did!!!!!but I loved being played!