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Looking for the perfect gift to get your mom this Mothers Day? Here are some ideas straight from the Autoblog staff.

LOS ANGELES — Stacey Thorpe can put together a custom 1-pound box of See’s Candies, gift-wrapped, in five minutes or less. She knows where every piece of candy sits behind the counter at her Glendale, Calif., store. Her speed and crisp corners, she boasts, have prompted many customers to ask if she’ll come home with them to wrap their holiday presents.

LOS ANGELES — For the past 40 years, my parents have exchanged the same presents on their wedding anniversary. In addition to the concert tickets, jewelry, tennis rackets, coffee mugs and fridge magnets, the list always includes See’s Candies.

Growing up in the 1960s in Duluth, Minnesota, when it came to news, ignorance was bliss.