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So good.

Really nice, Dan. Thank you.

If you are alive, your life isnt worthless.

So good, Dan. I had a time of it in 2011 cleaning out a storage unit of my mother's stuff with her sister-in-law hovering over me commenting on the potential monetary value of everything while I speed sorted against my very clear, very non-monetary sense of value.

📌 looking forward to reading this!

This is exactly what I needed to read today, thank you.

There is an independent shipping shop (like UPS Store) in my neighborhood. Takes 30 minutes to ship something. Receipts and tracking are done by hand still. Nothing has changed inside in decades. It is time travel and an escape from the world in the best way.

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This reminds me of when FDR passed away his kids thought his excessive stamp collection would be valuable but it turned out to be a lot of useless duplicates - he just loved collecting.

loved this

Selling silverware a few weeks back, the buyer was careful to say "this is nice but..." for rejects because he was clearly used to people upset to learn cherished heirlooms had no cash value. So this resonated! It's emotionally hard to put things in the trash that a parent valued.

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And writing on yer own site v writing for newspaper!

He didn't ask, but I wasn't there for a story so didn't ask either. I did take some pics originally to just send to my wife and asked and he said sure but not of him. In writing the piece I decided I didn't need to use a name, because it's all very stylistic anyway.