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   Here is a reprint from a previous edition of The Collectors Newsletter:   
      
   When I was a little girl my grandparents lived in an oil camp. The camp had a   
   dump where the residents would throw out things they now longer wanted or   
   needed.  Mostly is was broken furniture, old appliances, etc.  Although we   
   children had been told not to play at the dump, occasionally we would disobey.    
    We had a playhouse in the woods we called the Kennedy Mansion (he was   
   president at the time) and we were always looking for things to "furnish" it   
   with.  I came across a clear glass sugar bowl with no chips or cracks, just no   
   lid.  We took it home and my grandmother fell in love with it so I gave it to   
   her.  Years passed and I no longer saw the sugar bowl in her cabinet so I   
   assumed it had been broken or thrown away.  When she died a few years ago, my   
   aunts and uncles went through the house and took the things they wanted.  Then   
   we grandchildren were allowed to look for any leftovers we might want.  You   
   guessed it, my sugar bowl was still there hidden behind some old tea glasses.    
   It means nothing to anyone but me and only because my wonderful grandmother   
   loved it so.  On a side note, when I was in the second grade my teacher gave me   
    a planter that looked like a miniature spinning wheel.  I gave it to my   
   grandmother and over the years it disappeared.  When looking through the   
   "worthless" things the aunts and uncles didn't want, I found it, too.  My   
   sisters and I found many things that day that have no monetary value, but   
   precious memories attached to Grandmother.  Including enough feather pillows   
   for each of us five girls to have two each, she had written the date on the   
   ticking when she made each one.  I feel like we got the most valuable things of   
    all. Carolyn R   
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    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)