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Hey everybody, this is Mary El Segara.

Have you ever gotten somebody the perfect gift? Rachel Wilkerson Miller definitely has.

If you live in New York, you've been to restaurants. Every restaurant has to have a choking poster

on their wall that explains how to do the Heimlich on somebody if they're choking.

And a lot of restaurants will commission ones that are tongue in cheek or specific to them.

I did something that my girlfriend and I had talked about when we first started dating.

Like she would point them out in different places we'd go and she pointed out a specific one that she really liked.

It was blue and white and had a kind of vacation theme.

Like people are having dinner on a tropical island underneath these palm trees.

While this dude in formal attire is getting the Heimlich and a full hamburger comes flying out of his mouth.

So Rachel found the poster online, bought it, and gave it to her girlfriend as a housewarming gift

when they moved in together years later.

And just like a few, like a couple months ago she was just like,

I love that so much. That was the best gift I have ever received.

It's so special. It makes me so happy every time I look at it.

And like you can't pull that off very often.

Like that was a deep cut that I got lucky in terms of finding.

And then you know, again, sat on it for two years until the perfect moment.

But like to me, that was, I feel very proud of that one.

Rachel, by the way, isn't just a great gift giver.

She's also the editor-in-chief of Self Magazine.

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