Article: [pounds sterling]50k: the price of a romantic Christmas; Money Mail.

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
December 22, 2004
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Byline: LIZ PHILLIPS

LOVE is free, but the cost of true love is a whopping [pounds sterling]50,000. That's if you're besotted enough to copy the True Love in the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas. His present list is stuffed with birds - 184 of them - as well as a huge staff of milkmaids, entertainers and lords. And on the 13th day you would need a huge loan to pay for it all.

LIZ PHILLIPS got out her calculator and went shopping. . .

A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE

ON THE first day, your true love starts modestly with a partridge, costing [pounds sterling]10 live or 50p dead in its feathers, and a pear tree.

Notcutts Garden ...

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