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Nice one. B|

It's a little off-topic, but this reminded me of the time a friend's elderly mother showed me the long plaits of hair she'd had cut off as a young child, along with the commemorative photo her parents had taken just a few moments earlier. There they were, nestling in a shoe box like two fat, hibernating snakes; the chopped ends tied off to keep them from unravelling, and each still decorated with the ribbons she wore in the picture.

I remember being actually quite moved, touching the precious artifacts that she'd kept all these years: a perfectly preserved, physical part of that little girl smiling for her portrait. I wondered whether, when she'd asked to keep them, she'd imagined looking at them again as a grey-haired old lady.

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