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<\/a><\/p>\nThen I came across an old, printed-out\u00a0email.\u00a0It didn’t look like business, and upon closer inspection I was surprised to see it was from my mother. She had passed away five years ago, so finding it –especially in an old business file–was a pleasant surprise.<\/b><\/i><\/u><\/p>\n
It was from 2004, and my mom was taking a creative writing class.\u00a0She had emailed me her latest effort which took me even further back in time than ’04. The story was\u00a0about a Halloween costume she made me\u00a0when I was in first grade.\u00a0 Apparently, I didn’t tell her I needed the costume until the last minute, so she made it out of tin-foil and other things she quickly put together from around the house. I went as a shiny silver alien of some sort and won first prize.<\/p>\n
I had forgotten that incident entirely, but as I read the story all the\u00a0details came back. It was a nice memory.<\/p>\n
It made me think of all we forget.<\/p>\n
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