Others send thank-you letters with a fruit basket or a bottle of champagne attached.

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The Complaint alleges that Liounis sent a get-well fruit basket to the father.

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Among them: Pineapple Pudding and Fruit Basket.

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After GE bought NBC's parent RCA in 1986, late-night host David Letterman strode to the then-GE building to deliver a fruit basket to his new owners, complete with a camera crew that filmed him being escorted out of the building.

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For example, the mangle and dance hall admissions were added in the 1950s, the cassette recorder and dried mashed potato went in during the 1970s, while muffins and fruit smoothies joined the basket at the start of this century.

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