Me and some of my girlfriends had a little white elephant gift exchange of things people had given us for Christmas that we hated... I forget what I took to exchange but I got a gift of a pendant of a bubble gum machine that I actually liked and now that the friend is gone on to the other side, I keep it where I can see it all the time to remind me how short life is... (not exactly fitting here but that is all I could think of)