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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

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