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// The Gift Exchange 
// Story: The Story of Chris the Changeling 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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With that said the Doctor went inside, sat down, and they all started eating together. They talked and laughed and had a great time, they shared stories and jokes, and once the dinner was done and they had cleaned up they all went to their family Christmas tree which they had all decorated together in the living room, and then they did their tradition of unwrapping one present before tomorrow. Chris opened a present from Eve, it was a photo book, with pictures of them together, and the family, and a hand written note on the front page.

To remember all our good, special, happy moments in life, and so that we do not forget all that is given to us, and all that we have to give thanks for, was written on the front page in a stylish cursive handwriting that was fancy and elegant.

“Well thank you Eve,” he said, “I’m not sure if my gift can top yours though.”

“We’ll see,” she said smiling as she opened up a gift from Chris.

“What is it?” she asked pulling a pair of tied notebooks from the box.

“Well I was thinking to myself one day, as I do, well it thought to myself, Eve talks about the Doctor so much, but they have no real to communicate, and so I came up with this, although I did have help from your older brother Quentin.

This my dear Eve, is a pair of notebooks that are magically linked, whatever is written in one will appear in the other, so now you two can communicate, and should the Doctor not have shown up today I would have said to give it to him when you saw him next, but here he is, so you can give it to him.”

“Oh Chris, how thoughtful, it’s perfect!” and with tat said she gave one notebook to the Doctor, “Make sure to write to me as often as you can.”

“I will,” he said, “And I’m sure you’ll do more than your part.”

“You bet,” Eve said with a smile, “You can count on it.”

“You know, I didn’t know about this tradition before today, and I wanted to give you all of my best gifts today, but I suppose that can wait until tomorrow.”

“I guess you will,” Eve said, and with that the gift exchange went on.

Eve got a photo book from the Doctor, and he got a watch and calendar from Eve, “So you’ll never be late again,” she said explaining the purpose of it.

The Doctor merely laughed at the reason for he knew the joke, he was always late. The rest of the gifts between each person were exchanged with thanks and a slow but steady speed. Soon enough one gift was opened from every person in the family, and the gifts opened was one from each member of the family, in other words each pony opened one gift from each person in the family.