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Areavoices.com: Creative gift wrapping can help environment

I can remember many pre-Christmas evenings spent by the fireplace in my parents' house with my sisters, watching "White Christmas" and wrapping presents. While dreaming and making plans to be Vera Ellen when I grew up, I competed with my sisters for the best-wrapped gift of the year. Now, years later, I have a new competition - with myself: how can I make a beautifully wrapped gift that's also environmentally responsible?

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