On a truly seriously, deeply, positive note...
Several years ago my mother's apartment basement flooded.
I had a lot of things from my youth in that basement.
This included tons and tons of writing mementos and letters shared with friends ...my group of friends had notebooks and we passed them back and forth and wrote notes to each other. Each of us kept notebooks as mementos.
My mother told me all of my things were ruined.
The truth is...she had no idea if my things were ruined or not. She never bothered checking. I was devastated.
When I was driving her home from the hospital she said "I have something to tell you, you'll be mad."
"What mom?"
"I went through my storage shed. I have all of your containers and boxes of things from when you were a kid."
Right now...I am in that storage shed and I am.going through a bit of shock...but also extreme gratefulness. These things were my most prized possessions. Memories of who I was and who I loved and my friends...
I am absolutely ecstatic.
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I had a lot of things from my youth in that basement.
This included tons and tons of writing mementos and letters shared with friends ...my group of friends had notebooks and we passed them back and forth and wrote notes to each other. Each of us kept notebooks as mementos.
My mother told me all of my things were ruined.
The truth is...she had no idea if my things were ruined or not. She never bothered checking. I was devastated.
When I was driving her home from the hospital she said "I have something to tell you, you'll be mad."
"What mom?"
"I went through my storage shed. I have all of your containers and boxes of things from when you were a kid."
Right now...I am in that storage shed and I am.going through a bit of shock...but also extreme gratefulness. These things were my most prized possessions. Memories of who I was and who I loved and my friends...
I am absolutely ecstatic.
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