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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...
AG
Posted Sep 26, 2018
Forevermore no more
April 14, 2009 -January 5,2018
Baguio, Philippines
We were highschool sweetheart,we dated for almost 9 yrs. We have our bumps and trials d...
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Watch
December 2002
Menznau, Switzerland
In 2002, when I was still young and innocent, I spent November and December in Vancouve...
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Espresso machine
Too long, last 20 years of the past century
Paris, France
For a long time he loved the coffee I made for him using the espresso machine he gave m...
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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...
AP
Posted Apr 09, 2018
Tilted
6/28/17
Italy
I knew it was partly my fault, but I overcompensated on the guilt and that's when I los...
Posted Aug 29, 2018
Coleshill, United Kingdom
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Twenty-seven-year Old Crust from a Wound of My First Love
1990-1993
Mürzzuschlag, Austria
In 1990 my friend, my first great love, had a motorbike accident. Its consequence was s...
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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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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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An Exe Axe
Berlin
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to ...
AC
Posted Oct 28, 2016
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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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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Stockman mannequin
14 years
Oslo, Norway
His dream was to be a fashion designer. He had just finished university in New York Cit...
MW
Posted Oct 08, 2017
London, United Kingdom
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Brokenships on view in Kosovo
May 11, 2018
Pristina, Kosovo
Our travelling exhibition is opened on 3 May in Priština, at the Lapidariumin e Muzeut të Kosovës', which launched the cultural activities during European Day.
A never lit special occasions candle and a silk robe telling the tale of ‘forbidden’ love are just two of the 23 objects that will find their final resting place in th...
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