`This isn`t going to sound very personal,” warns Ray Suarez, a reporter for WMAQ-TV.
Then he tells of the gifts his girlfriend (now his wife of more than 10 years) gave him on two consecutive Christmases: a camera and a typewriter.
”She (Carole) knew at the time that I was very much a budding journalist,” says Suarez, 35.
What particularly touched Suarez was that the typewriter was exactly the model he wanted. ”She searched heaven and Earth to find an Olympia Desk Manual,” he says.
”And I still have both of them, and I still use both of them-and I`m still married.”
Suarez says he still hasn`t figured out the rationale for the least personal gift he ever received: a stapler.
The giver, whose identity Suarez prefers to protect, wasn`t around when the beautifully wrapped box was opened-and a good thing, too.
”My face fell,” he recalls with a laugh. ”They must have thought I was a real wacky, trend-setting kind of guy.”
But the standard-issue stapler wasn`t a total loss: ”I still have that too,” he says
