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Posted: 6 months ago

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Baakiyalakshmi | 2nd to 4th April 2025 - Promo

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Is it rude to regift? Here's the answer.

During this season of giving, is it OK to give someone a gift you don't want or can't use?

Or is it in bad taste to regift a gift?

"Like so many things in etiquette, it really matters how you do it," Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of etiquette maven Emily Post, told USA TODAY.

"We've heard some horrible regifting stories where the item comes back to the original giver with the original cards," said Post, who is an author, co-president and spokesperson for The Emily Post Institute.

Is it rude to give away a gift?

It's important to think carefully about how you regift, said Post.

The Emily Post Institute offers four tips, she said:

◾ The gift should have its original packaging and all necessary parts and manuals.

◾ The gift should not be anything unique, handmade, or personalized with monograms, names, or dates.

◾ Make sure you are 100% sure the person you're giving the gift to and the person you received it from would not be offended if the regift was discovered. (Post said it is safe territory if you are 99% sure.)

◾ You have to genuinely believe the person receiving the regifted item would appreciate and enjoy it.

"This is not about getting rid of your junk and just not feeling guilty about it," Post said.

Should you tell the person you are regifting?

It's up to you whether you disclose that the gift is a regift, but sometimes people don't mind or even appreciate a regift, Post said.

The other way to regift safely, said Post, is when you have received two of something and you've decided to pass one along. "You can just be open about that," she said.

by Betty Lin-Fisher

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Posted: 6 months ago

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-cancer-cells-metastasize

How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold

Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments

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Posted: 6 months ago

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"Guaranteed"

(from "Into The Wild" soundtrack)

On bended knee is no way to be free

Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently

That all my destinations will accept the one that's me

So I can breathe

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole

Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know

Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul

And so it goes

Don't come closer or I'll have to go

Owning me like gravity are places that pull

If ever there was someone to keep me at home

It would be you

Everyone I come across in cages they bought

They think of me and my wandering but I'm never what they thought

Got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts

I'm alive

Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere

Underneath my being is a road that disappeared

Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead

Overhead

Leave it to me as I find a way to be

Consider me a satellite forever orbiting

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me

Guaranteed

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Unnamed and unknowable thoughts of Adam and Eve-1

He finally cornered her in the corner of the corner where the office supplies had bled out from their storage space. She had her back turned to him. Yet, she knew that he was standing right behind her because she sensed him and at the same time felt his thoughts as they banged on his heart.

She took her time before turning around and used those few moments to calm herself down and to slip into character and slip on the mask over her face and her eyes.

Turning slowly, she faced him with her head hung low and sighing softly, raised her head slightly and looked at him with eyebrows raised in question

and nodded her head in a near imperceptible motion.

His sigh was neither soft nor subtle but a loud whoosh of an exhalation.

' My parents are pressurizing me to get married. I tried my best to resist the pressure, but I doubt if I can hold on any longer.'

She looked at him with kind eyes that shone clearly and brightly with love and understanding and said, ' Your parents have been at it for so long ' and pausing for a moment, looked into his eyes and he knew that she was counting time and tallying their first meeting and not wanting to even give her that struggle, said, ' Eleven years and counting. We met in 2014 when and now it is 2025.'

' Eleven years! ' she exclaimed and then hurriedly looked at him and answered, ' And my answer is the same as it was in 2014 and it will be the same in 2036 if you are still unmarried and in case you propose to me again. Sorry, I want to be single and alone. I am not interested in marriage or relationships.'

His eyes glinted with unshed tears that, like some tiny flower buds, never bloom but die a crib death.

' Okay. I will try and keep trying, and if it does not work out, I too, like you, will remain single and alone.'

She could not help it, for she was not aware of it, and before she knew it and could do something about it, her frustration took form as words and escaped her soul barrier and reached him as sound waves. Loud and clear

' WTF is wrong with you?'

She looked at him in shock, her eyes revealing the anger and repulsion she was feeling about herself.

'It's okay. At least I make you feel something.. even if it is anger and frustration. Yet, they are feelings, and you felt them for me.'

Thanking her, he walked away with a spring, and dance in his steps, imagining that maybe there was hope even now, in eventually breaking down her barriers and making her love him and marry him.

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Posted: 6 months ago

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Noorie - Bally Sagoo | The Classic Super Hit Music Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU

Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are (Official Audio)

Don't go changing to try and please me

You never let me down before, mmm

Don't imagine you're too familiar

And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble

We never could have come this far, mmm

I took the good times, I'll take the bad times

I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion

Don't change the color of your hair, mmm

You always have my unspoken passion

Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation

I never want to work that hard, mmm

I just want someone that I can talk to

I want you just the way you are

I need to know that you will always be

The same old someone that I knew

Oh, but what will it take till you believe in me

The way that I believe in you?

I said I love you, that's forever

And this I promise from the heart, mmm

I couldn't love you any better

I love you just the way you are, right

I don't want clever conversation

I never want to work that hard, mmm

I just want someone that I can talk to

I want you just the way you are

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