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Hey, everybody. It's Mariel.

Have you ever gotten somebody the perfect gift?

Rachel Wilkerson Miller definitely has.

If you live in New York, and you've been to restaurants, every restaurant has to have a choking poster on their wall that explains, like,

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. And it's 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 hemeleck 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.

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