This holiday season, give the gift of shoelaces.

In the video below, the sweetest teacher known to man opens up a pair of sneakers his students gave to him for Christmas. Instead of shaming them for what was an obviously weird gift, this teacher embraces the sneakers with open arms.

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Have you ever seen a person so excited about a gift in your life?

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It's so touching, it'll almost make you want to buy a pair of red sneakers for that special someone in your life.

He said he liked our classmate's Vans on the first day of school, so we pitched in and bought him his own pair❤ pic.twitter.com/a7ynwdzeGx

— Ophelia (@itsdeeyanee) December 20, 2016

It'll almost make you like the holidays again.

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