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My father gifted me with a copy of Strunk & White's Elements of Style when I turned 13. It was the best gift my father had ever given me only because I don't count books he bought as pasalubong from trips to the United States as gifts. I've been using it more and more often, lately. It's the only book I have on my work/study table and I've never left it on my bookshelf for too long. I'm sure my father sees it in my room (it is silver and hard to miss, a small bullet to my memory). I wonder if I keep it out and within sight so I never lose sight of something more important. I do not doubt my father forgot he gave it to me, with a handwritten note to boot.