Sweet City

Sweet City

A Sweet City Gift Guide

For the holidays or any day.

Mahira Rivers
Dec 04, 2024
∙ Paid

Because I grew up immersed in not one, but two Asian cultures, to me, gift giving is just another mode of communication. In Chinese culture and in Pakistani culture, a gift is not quite a love language, but an innately coded (and sometimes loaded) social exchange. And when nearly every occasion warrants a small token of your affection or a signal of you…

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