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I've moved around a lot less than most of you here, so I have a lot of things that I've had for a long time. I do have one item with absolutely no value to anyone else at all, but I've never been able to throw it out. Back in 1980 my father was in the hospital dying of pancreatic cancer. We spent a lot of sleepless nights up at the hospital, and on one night in particular my sister and I sat in the ICU waiting room stacking up our discarded vending machine coffee cups as high as possible, and laughing in the giddy way that exhaustion brings every time they fell over. Those cups had a little gimmick -- they doubled as a hand of poker, with four cards "showing" on the side of the cup and one hidden card on the bottom. I got a cup with a Full House that night, and kept it. My father died not long after. I had just dropped the cup in a drawer and forgotten about it, but when I found it later I had the strangest attachment to it and couldn't throw it out. It's still just stuck in a drawer...
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