I'll have to explain... but when I opened this present from my dad? I'm not at all ashamed to admit I started crying.
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[Christmas] 
I'll have to explain... but when I opened this present from my dad? I'm not at all ashamed to admit I started crying.
I'll have to explain... but when I opened this present from my dad? I'm not at all ashamed to admit I started crying.
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So, when I was real young,I got this stuffed dog for Christmas that came with a scarf and a removable coat.
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I instantly named him Chilly Willy and we were inseparable.
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A couple of years later, Avon released an ornament version.
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We got it, and every year I put Chilly Willy on the tree. Like... even in high school.
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It was just one of those family traditions.
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I lost my original Chilly Willy due to some really unfortunately circumstances, but Dad hung onto the ornament.
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(On a side note, I told a friend about Chilly Willy one night years later, even though I worried he'd laugh at me. He literally helped me find another one on eBay.)
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So... fast forward to Christmas.
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The two wrapped gifts we got were unmarked, so Straya randomly hands me one. I open it...
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And I'm just... completely speechless.
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At first, I thought he'd just given the ornament that hung on the tree in his house, despite the sentimental value.
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But no... I guess he too scoured eBay and somehow found THE SAME ORNAMENT STILL SEALED IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX.
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This is from the 80s.
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It couldn't have been easy to find.
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He called before we opened the gifts he gave us and apologized that he couldn't do much...
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But I'm not lying. He could have gotten me a PS5 and it would not have meant nearly as much as this ornament does.
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Beyond the history... getting something like this that means so much after everything that's happened this year.
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Seeing him through the door was the first time I'd seen my father in maybe a year...
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And he lives five minutes from my house.
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It's just... damn.
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I'm always going to have that ornament out, along with the box, sitting next to the full sized Chilly Willy I bought years ago.
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And then we watched Klaus right after, and the messages of that movie hit home in a big way.
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So yeah... the moral of this story is that Domon is a gigantic sentimental nerd and isn't at all ashamed of it.
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I'm also going to share photos from what ended up being a small feast, but... that'll be a different Plurk, because I will tag my (food) porn.
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And to finish this Plurk... here he is, on the tree.
And to finish this Plurk... here he is, on the tree.
ʅǝʅʅɐɹɐd ǝʅdɹnd
;.; awww..! That's so sweet!
TheApostate ™
Awww!
TheApostate ™
I kind of want one now, it's so adorbs
uftaki
d'aawwwww! 
I şĥĩp ĩţ
AWWWWW
I şĥĩp ĩţ
That's adorable
Zee
awww!!
awww!!