There are few things in life that hurt more than your first break up. Is it because you\u2019re young? Is it because it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve opened yourself up? Is it because it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve felt that debilitating combination of rejection and loss?<\/p>\n
First breakups are hard to get over and no one ever forgets that feeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1970, 17-year-old Adrian Pearce was looking forward to Christmas vacation when his first girlfriend, Vicky Allen, dumped him. While she was breaking up with him,\u00a0she gave him a present which the heartbroken Peace refused to open.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter my family opened their gifts at Christmas, there was still one Christmas gift left and it\u2019s the gift this girl Vicki had given me,\u201d Pearce told Global News Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told my family I\u2019m never going to open that present,\u201d Pearce told Huffington Post. \u201cI kept it initially because I guess I had hopes that we would get back together and open it together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pearce and Allen would never get back together again. but every year, he kept placing the gift beneath his tree. As the years went by, Peace got married and had kids, but he wouldn\u2019t open the gift. His children begged him to do\u00a0it, but he always refused.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Peace\u2019s wife \u2014 tired of having the relic of a bygone relationship beneath the tree every Christmas \u2014 asked him to stop bringing it out. So every year, Pearce would secretly take the blue package out of storage, reminisce about his days as a teenager in love, and then put it away.<\/p>\n
In 2017,\u00a0Pearce posted a photo of the unopened gift on Facebook and it quickly went viral. He vowed to open it up on Christmas 2020 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his breakup.<\/p>\n
But because his story went viral last year, Pearce decided to open it up two years early and sold tickets to the event\u00a0as a benefit for the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton, a charity that provides holiday meals for families in need.<\/p>\n
Pearce and Vicki reunited for the opening of the present.\u00a0\u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely fantastic that we\u2019re friends,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re in a fantastic place, where all you can feel is love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, the gift she gave him was a small paperback book, \u201cLove Is: New Ways To Spot That Certain Feeling,\u201d containing sayings about love, cartoons, and poems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, all in all, maybe it\u2019s good that Pearce waited so long to open that gift. Giving a guy a book about love and then dumping him is a pretty cold-blooded move, especially on Christmas.<\/p>\n
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