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Bill Gates Turns Out to be Reddit User's Secret Santa

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Bill Gates Turns Out to be Reddit User's Secret Santa
While everyone knows the best part of a Secret Santa gift exchange is finding out the identity of the gift giver, a Reddit user participating in this year's online Secret Santa gift giving got the surprise of her life during the big reveal.

While everyone knows the best part of a Secret Santa gift exchange is finding out the identity of the gift giver, a Reddit user participating in this year's online Secret Santa gift giving got the surprise of her life during the big reveal.

The user, identified only as Rachel, posted a list of gifts she hoped to get from her Reddit Secret Santa – makeup, nail polish, "glittery things" and an iPad. But that's not what she got from Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

It turns out, all of the gifts were perfectly tailored to her interests.

(READ the story from ABC News)

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