By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other.

They decided to become engaged.

And that's when presents are always exchanged.

The boy was poor - his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather.

Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette.

The girl had no money herself to buy him a present.

She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair.

With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover.

When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave her the barrette for the hair she no longer had.