Title: Belongings
Author: Namaste
Rating: Gen
Summary: The things we keep say a lot about us. So do the things we leave behind.
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Excerpt:
The wooden box became the neutral ground on everything he owned until he left home. He could buy whatever he wanted, Dad told him, as long as it fit in the box come moving time. The secondhand
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An entire life is summed up in that last sentence. As always, this is extraordinary, beautiful writing that speaks to both the head and the heart of the reader.
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(My husband's dad was a career Navy pilot, and they moved 32 times in 17 years. Their older son was talking just this weekend about how he needs to have his collections of stuff around him because for half of his life, most of their belongings were in storage.)
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I cannot tell you the number of times I read your stuff and think: I wish I could write like corgigirl.
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