This is Emily Writes Back, the advice column for brilliant people, by Emily Sanders Hopkins.
Dear Emily,
The people in my family are famously hard to shop for. My father is rich, buys everything he wants for himself—model cars, Cuban cigars, motorcycles, trips to Egypt—and also he’s super picky. My mother is on a minimalism kick and claims she doesn’t w…
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