![]() ![]() ![]() She understands what it's like to look back on four generations of women and a beloved quilt that her great-great-grandmother made from an uncle's shirt, an aunt's nightdress, another aunt's apron, and her daughter's dress and babushka. ![]() They don't realize that the baby blanket they've so callously dropped in the donation box is one that they're going think about later, when they have their first kid. Does no object in this house hold sentimental value for them? They toss book after book in the "giveaway" piles, and they do not turn back to retrieve them.īut that's how kids are though, aren't they? They're young, they're always in motion, and they don't cry because they aren't producing enough estrogen. I'm proud of my kids they've been incredibly diligent, packing for our big move. We've purged approximately 400 books in the past week, and this one, The Keeping Quilt, was at the bottom of a last pile of books that my kids had declared “giveaways.” I picked it up and almost broke out in a rash at the thought of giving it to anyone but me. ![]()
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