 Community is woven from gifts, from the relationships and obligations that are created every time a gift is given and received, or you could at least say that gifts are the warp of the fabric of community, whereas stories might be the woof. Gifts create ties and obligations and a debt of gratitude. So imagine what it would be like to live in a place where everybody was in debt to everybody else, where everyone's well-being depended on the ongoing gifts of the people around them.