The Gifts Of The Magi And The Sesame Street Video

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" The Gifts Of The Magi "and The sesame street video are similar and different in many ways. For example in both the story and movie they both gave up one thing they both admired and loved to be able to buy something for christmas to there friend/spouse. They are also similar because of the way they both got there gift, like Della was sad because she sold her hair for her loved and so was Ernie he gave his thing he loved which was his rubber ducky to get a cigar box for Berts paper clips. While " The Gifts Of The Magi " and The sesame street video are similar, they have a lot of differences, too. For example, they are in different time periods like Bella and Jim are in the older days, meanwhile Bert and Ernie are later in the years. Finale

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