19 People Who Were Kind To Me This Year (For Whom I Forgot To Buy Gifts)

I knew I was forgetting someone.

Brazilian teen on Instagram who occasionally likes my photos after finding me through the #swaggy hashtag

Internet-based rapper RiFF RAFF's puppy Goldy Husky

Guy in an intro to women's studies class who once underscored the point he was trying to make by describing himself as "a guy with a mom" (he recently faved one of my tweets)

Once-removed cousin of Elvis Presley still living on the Graceland estate on the low who complimented my romper on hour nine of a roadtrip

Girl on the train who asked me if I was okay when she saw me crying on the train after she got into a C-word screaming fight with a fellow commuter

Former professor who shared an academic article I wrote on her Facebook page with a "LOL"

Downstairs neighbor picked me up like a crane by my backpack after I fell up our shared set of stairs, toppling under its weight

Uncle who I didn't realize had another family until recently

Coworker who told me I had pretty hair after he found one of my pretty hairs in the cookies I made for the office holiday party

Ghost of the woman in my apartment who has never done anything all that sinister to my roommate or me

Editor who .@___-replied me on Twitter even though a simple @____ reply would have sufficed

Protestor next to me who peacefully tripped a trifling Santa Con reveler

American Airlines employee who upgraded my seat just to get me to cease that nervous wailing I sometimes do.

Italian tourist who didn't mind when something primal within compelled me to smile in the background of her selfie.

Yoga instructor who told me that my form "was like nothing [I'd] ever seen," but said it so nicely that only later I registered it as a diss.

All the other girls walking around major cities in black parkas with fur hoods who haven't said anything rude to me about stealing their look.

College roommate who was able to procure me my Sephora birthday gift four months after the fact by screaming, "SHE GREW UP IN THE MIDWEST" at a salesperson

Apartment broker who supplied minutes of entertainment upon a Google Image search revealing he was a former underwear model

Apple Genius who kindly did not ask me if I had my information backed up on iCloud (for what it's worth, I didn't).