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Susie Kaufman's avatar

When we moved from the Berkshires fourteen months ago, I was ruthless about getting rid of "things," but the archive of my life was something else. Every birthday card resonates for me. I ended up taking quite a volume of cards and photographs with me to Minnesota where it comforts me to know that I haven't been lost.

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My niece recently delivered a treasure trove of century-plus-old letters she found while cleaning out my brother's house after his death. He had brought them from our parents' house after they both died and which he probably never read. They are in several foreign languages and may hold clues to what became of our ancestors in Europe, all of whom were lost during the Holocaust. I regard them as treasure and am guarding them as such for the day when I have bolstered my courage enough to go through them. I've begun decluttering and donating my own "archive" that ranges from sentimental chachkas to my original writing. Thank you for writing and publishing this lovely piece. I'm certain many will identify with it as poignantly as I did.

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