One of my many regrets is that I was flippant about keepsakes in high school, college, and my twenties. Like everyone, those times blur as we get older and our brain space gets crowded.

My first cast-iron pan, which I didn’t know how to clean. My college ID that I threw out of the window somewhere on Niagara Falls Boulevard on my last day on campus. And then there’s my oh-so-bad short films that confounded my film professor.

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Many years later, I’d like to touch, and see, and feel these things. But I can’t. They’re gone because I didn’t realize how valuable they were and a truth as inevitable as my greying hair: forgetting always wins. What about you?

Have you thrown something away that you wish you could hold again?

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