A recipient who fully acknowledges and cherishes a gift before returning it has satisfied the normative demands of gratitude, since gratitude concerns the relational attitude, not the perpetual retention of the gift.

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gratitude(example of a particular emotion that can become religious): A response to a particular kind of situation in which the subject is the recipient of some benefit.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.): Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
normative demands(in ethics and philosophy of gratitude): Rules or expectations about how you should behave or what you should do—basically, what's considered right or proper in a situation.
perpetual retention(describing what gratitude does NOT require you to do): Keeping something forever or permanently; holding onto it indefinitely.

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