Free gift: How can anything be a gift if it is not free?

Willy wasn’t, and it took an awfully long time for Nelson Mandela.

Just saw the quote and thought it interesting.  Who is Willy??

Willy was a whale - there was a movie made about it.  There is a similar hue and cry at the moment about a whale shark that has been bottled-up in an aquarium at the Atlantis Hotel on the Palm at Dubai, but I don’t think it has been given a name yet.

Wasn’t Willy also the name of your cousin/nephew that generated some good repartee but offended the GOG’s?

Jesse James Richter, child star, in all three Free Willy Movies. The real name of the whale was Keiko or something like that.  I knew that, but did not make the connection with being free. Mandela
of course I understood.  But the Gift???  Remember I am a little slow. No, actually I am alot slow.