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A drawing of us made by a stranger in the train
2013-2015
Helsinki, Finland
We met at a students Valentine's Day party, the connection was immediate. She came into...
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A postcard
Yerevan, Armenia
I am a 70-year-old woman from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I visited Zagreb back in...
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An Exe Axe
Berlin
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to ...
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A key - bottle opener
Ljubljana, Slovenia
You talked to me of love and presented me with small gifts every day; this is just one ...
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2 Claddagh rings
03/01/2003 - 14/08/2017
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
14.5 years, 4 countries and 3 rings. I lost the first ring down a drain and he replaced...
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A plush Snoopy
30 years
Leiden, Netherlands
He gave Snoopy to me on my 17th birthday.
We had fallen in love six months earlier, on...
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A stiletto shoe
1966, six weeks, and 1998, a few hours
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
It was 1959, I was ten, T. was eleven. We were very much in love. When I told my mother...
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December 2002
Menznau, Switzerland
In 2002, when I was still young and innocent, I spent November and December in Vancouve...
The Illusion
10/22/2020
Towson, United States
I thought I had seen the worst of humanity until this man confidently walked into my li...
The Boots
January 1984 to December 2019
The Boots
My husband of 31 years, bought a pair of stylish tan Boots to impress his –un...
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Number 2
Summer 2007
Manila, Philippines
He had another woman. He couldn’t make me his number 1; I couldn’t stand being his numb...
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Frogs
36 years
Bloomington, Indiana
Mom left when I was 3. This is one of the few Christmas gifts she has given me.
Feather filled quilt
May, 2013
Before we moved in together I was living by myself. So when we decided to live together...
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Belly button lint
November 2013 to April 2015
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
D.'s stomach had a particular arrangement of body hair that made his belly button prone...
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A magnifying glass
Manilla, Philippines
She gave it to me as a remembrance before I left.
I never did get why she gave a magni...
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A Child's Pedal Car
Prague, Czech Republic
I waited almost 40 years to learn the meaning of the word love. Unfortunately, the inte...
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