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Band 5+: 1. Have you ever sent handmade gifts to others?

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Now, because I don't think that handmade gifts are suitable to be given as presents to others, I don't know how to match anything like handmade gifts. I want to learn about it, and I think that is a symbol of gifts that are not suitable to be given by my best friends or anyone else. I don't know how to make them neat or suitable, and I don't feel comfortable about those gifts because I don't know how to create them.

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now because I don’t think that is a hand-made not suitable to to be the other gifts or as a presents for others and additional I don’t know how to to match anything like hand-made gifts I don’t know what and I want to learn about it and I think so that is the symbol gifts symbol and not suitable from to be to be a gift from from any any my best friends or any person because I don’t know so neat or so suitable and so convertible I don’t convert about that gifts because

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don't: 5

gifts: 4

that: 3

suitable: 3

know: 3

because: 2

think: 2

handmade: 2

given: 2

about: 2

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Task Response

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