She Spent My Money to Buy Me a Birthday Present

Brian Dickens Barrabee

Published in

The Haven

3 min readMar 13

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When should working couples buy each other presents with their own money?
Some say always.
Some have learned to disagree.

Photo by Alief Vinicius on Unsplash

My passion when I graduated from college had a burst of golden hair and bright blue eyes. She had a saucy personality and ran rings…

Brian Dickens Barrabee

Written by Brian Dickens Barrabee

Writer for

The Haven

Very much involved with the world and likes nothing better than writing about its absurdities. Award winning author who guarantees a laugh or two a story.

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