True Love

This is a story about the love between husband and wife. This is from "Gift Of The Magi" by O.Henry. It is about a young married couple called Della and Jim who are poor and live a barely furnished rented apartment. It is the day before Christmas and they have both been working out what to give each other to show their love. The wife, Della, wants to give her husband a watch chain to give with the gold watch he inherited from his grandfather, which he is very proud of. She finds it costs $21 and all she has is $1.87. She decides that the only thing to do is to sell her beautiful brown hair, which is so long it rreaaches to her knees. In whatever country or culturre, a woman's hair means almost as much as life itself to her. But Della makes the sacrifice, seliing the hair to a wigmaker, and she buys a platinum watch chain with the money.
Her heart pounding with excitement, she waits for her husband tto come home. He returns at last, and when he sees her, he is dumbfounded. The present he has brought for hrer is a pair of beautiful tortoiseshell combs to wear in her long hair. Della assures him that her hair will grow long again in no time and holds out her hand with the platinum watch chain gleaming in it. Jim collapses on the couch, then says with a smile, "Dell, let's put our christmas presents away and keep them a while. They're too nice to use just now. I sold the watch to get the moneyy to buy your combs."
Source: The NSGI Times, Dr. Daisssaku Ikeda (SGI president)