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June, 2004:
a family tradition
I was honestly quite excited when I recently rediscovered the
retainer that I wore for a few years as a teenager. But I think
that finding the improvised box that it was kept in all these years
was at least as exciting. The retainer was housed in a Miracle Whip
mayonnaise jar lid, covered with a slightly larger clear plastic
lid, probably from something like a reusable peanut tin.
There must be people somewhere in the world who throw these jar
lids away, but I'm not sure that I know any of them, or would like
to know them. My family has been collecting them for as long as
I can remember - a collection that
continued to grow well beyond any logical proportions for even slightly
predictable use.
And there seems to be no end in sight. Though perhaps the collection
that we've started in our own home doesn't yet rival my mother's (and
even has a somewhat excusable reason for being maintained) our home
today continues to accumulate these lids - as any self-respecting
home probably must.
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