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Burnt Piece of Wood, Brussels When she left me I was heart¬broken. My friends decided something had to be done, so they took everything that might trigger thoughts of her and set it on fire. It took me years to recover and gain some perspective.
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Lamp, Brussels I cried saying goodbye to the house where my children grew up. It was an ordinary place, but also a magical home to so many memories. This lamp was in the house the whole time. It witnessed everything, the good and bad together.
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Hockey Puck, Paris I met him at a rock festival, I fell in love immediately. This hockey puck was his first Christmas gift to me. He hesitated before giving it to me, but to me it was perfect.
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A Silk Dress, Lille For years we were together, without living together, working in different parts of the world, ever in love. She looked so beautiful in this dress. A few months before we would have settled down in Afghanistan, she found someone else.
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A Child’s Wartime Love Letter, Sarajevo I was 13 and escaping from wartime Sarajevo. She was blonde and cute. I fell in love with childlike honesty and confessed it to her in this letter. I never got the chance to deliver it.