Christmas Gifts for Baileigh

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There is, of course, the iPod Touch. He promised, of course, though, really, that's more of a stocking stuffer than anything else. He feels like a pretty bad fiance that she didn't have it beforehand.

Next, having paid attention to her list, there are the Jimmy Choo sandals she asked for.

Then, well, thinking the shoes and the iPod were really small sorts of gift, he went to Tiffany's.

Jean Schlumberger’s designs all caught his eyes, but figuring she might get a bit miffed if he spent as much as a new house on jewelry, he contented himself with a necklace and bracelet set with just 18k gold and diamonds that really only cost as much as his car, not a house:





And then a pretty little pearl necklace and stained glass pendant caught his eye that he simply couldn't leave sitting in the case, so he picked that up for her as well:



All the jewelry were in their signature little blue boxes under the tree, of course--Sark did not wrap things, mind you. But he liked to spoil her.

Attached was a card, and that took the most work, of course, as words came easily, yes, but the ones from the heart were never easy for him:

Baileigh,

Finding myself without words isn't something that I am used to, and yet you seem to leave me that way more often than anyone in my life--in a very good way. From the first moment we met, when you lightened a very dark night, through our weekend in Paris, when you showed me a side of life I didn't know existed, through every week, every month since, when you've awakened me to a side of myself I tried to deny was there--you leave me speechless with wonder, with delight, with laughter and with awe. Whatever brought you into my life, I am thankful for it, and hope only that I can spend the rest of our lives being worth of the love and laughter you have brought into my life. I thought I was living before, but you have shown me what was missing in my life, and filled it up in ways I never knew were possible.

I love you, more than these words can say.

Merry Christmas, my love.

Julian