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A journal

For my boyfriend Sean's 17th birthday I was freaking out over what to get him, and I really had no money. I decided to make him a journal. It's a great gift that takes a lot of time to organize, but isn't costly, and the person you give it to will probably keep it for the rest of his or her life.

I filled 180 pages front and back with quotes, poems, pictures, a funny Zits comic about a boy going out with a girl, and other newspaper cut-outs like the "Love is" comics. I went onto the Internet and copied down song lyrics from favorite songs (like "Wonderwall" which is our song). I also found Internet reproductions of works of art that we both love and pasted them in the journal. For a couple of weeks, I worked on it every night. It came out really wonderfully. Sean loved it. He started reading it as soon as I gave it to him. It took him a couple of hours to go through it.
—Jennifer Gottesfeld, 16, Beverly Hills HS