Itinerantdaughter's Blog

Susan Orlean, great writer and delightful human, on the best gift one could give her:

My dream gift is a donkey. I feel like it’s an obvious good gift. Maybe not everybody feels that way, but my husband, who is a great gift giver, knew that I really wanted a donkey, and I received a donkey IOU from him a few years ago for my birthday. At that time, we were living on a farm in Hudson Valley, so it wasn’t as nutty an idea as it sounds. I just thought it was the most amazing gift.

One wrinkle is that donkeys live for a really long time, like 40 years. And so the thought of the commitment to a 40-year relationship with a donkey got me very nervous. I kept putting it off. Then we moved to L.A., and it’s not an ideal place for a donkey. So it remains a “to be fulfilled” gift.

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