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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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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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Empty bag of fortune cookies attached to a Starbucks cup
October 27, 2013 – January 10, 2016
Vicenza, Italy
You were my first love. And I wished you would also be my last. When we got those fortu...
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Hairdryer
9.5 years
Cologne, Germany
When I was a child, we used to have a ‘special’ hairdryer. Once switched off, it someti...
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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 learn to let people in more. A few months after she moved in, I was offered to travel to the US. She could not come along. At the airport we said goodbye in tears, and she was assuring me she could not survive three weeks without me. I returned after three weeks, and she said: “I fell in love with someone els...
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