DonnaM: A toybox full of memories: "I was attempting to clean up my daughter's room. I was finding old scraps of drawing and cheap rubbishy toys - things that didn't look important to me - but she wouldn't let me throw them out. I could see in her face that the idea of throwing these things out was quite distressing. I listened to why she wouldn't throw them - it wasn't that she wanted to use them, or that the toys were fun to play with, but that they had memories for her. Some were drawings that someone had done for her, and some of the toys were ones that she remembered where they came from and other associations."
# Feb 17, 2004