20th August 2006, 11:40 PM
I would suspect she originally intended it as a gift but when it came time to wrap it she couldn't find it. She probably was very upset for a long time because of the money spent on it too and eventually gave up the quest. Who knows who it was originally meant for, but now it's yours by the legally binding "finders keepers" act passed back when life began.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)