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Article: It's more like `The 12 Grand of Christmas'; You know the carol - the one that goes on and on about a `true love' who appears to be a spendthrift? What, we wondered, would it cost to duplicate such a shopping list today?(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 24, 1996
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Suppose you really wanted to do it. Suppose you wanted to send your true love a partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, etc., etc. Could you, here in Minnesota, as an unforgettable gesture?
And if so, what would it cost?
Well, yes, you could do it. And it would cost you plenty.
It turned out to be an amazingly easy thing to line up. There are people all over Minnesota who would be delighted to set you up with golden rings, swans a-swimming, pipers piping and all the rest.
You've got to think creatively now and again to fulfill the terms of the British carol, but all those contacted entered fully into the spirit ...