Preaching to the converted, I know! The trouble is that it is technically correct; there is a transitive verb "to gift" which, I suspect, had fallen out of use but has been resurrected. So "gifted" here is a verbal adjective and therefore used correctly.
I still don't like it - there is a twee feel to it, somehow. Fits into a list of twee little words that I hate!
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