Double Whammy So about a year and a half ago, I started dating a girl who loved to hear me play guitar. Her name was Alice, and probably her favorite song I played was Barracuda, and she was really into 80s music and culture. I really liked this girl and wanted to get serious, so I decided I wanted to get her something special for Christmas. I don't own any music on vinyl, except I did have the album Bad Animals by Heart (who wrote Barracuda), so I decided to give it to her. Cue Christmas day, when I made time to go see her between family Christmas celebration so that I could give her the album as a present. I was so excited, but when she opened it, she looked a little underwhelmed. I guess I had amped up the present a little too much, because I could tell she didn't really like it. That night my dad got a vinyl record player, and so he asked me if I had my heart album we could listen to it, but since we didn't have it, the only other album we could find was by one of my least favorite bands, Tears for Fears. It was an all around horrible day. The next day, I found out that she had re-gifted it to her mom, and I was really upset. We got in a huge argument and eventually her mom felt bad enough that she gave me the album back. We mended things and are doing all around a whole lot better than last year. This Christmas season is already going a lot better, and have decided to try and gift the album again, but this time to my cousin who is a little mentally handicapped. She is really into Heart and would absolutely love the album, and it just kinda brings back bad memories for me. Plus, since she will be at my house this Christmas we can listen to it instead of that horrible Tears for Fears album. The only problem is that this year, Alice hinted that I should give her the album again (she has started to listen to Heart regularly and really enjoys their music now). She had been hinting but I had deflected and kinda changed the subject every time it was brought up until the other day when she told me straight up ""I would really like that album for Christmas this year. I'm sorry I gave it to my mom, that was wrong of me, but I would love to have it this year."" I was very frustrated, and replied, ""Last Christmas I gave you my Heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year, to save me from Tears, I'll give it to someone special.""