''Twas the night before Christmas and all but one creature was stirring but it was no mouse. It was a young girl who just couldn't go to sleep so her mother decided to tell her three stories about the magic of Christmas."
The Gift of the Magi is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
This is my retelling of the short story by O'Henry, in the story a couple has financial difficulties, and they have to make money for each other's present