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Article: PILED IN AN ATTIC, A SILENT LEGACY.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 14, 2008
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I took my mother's slippers so I would not forget the sounds of her restless feet, or the smell of a woman who once modeled for famous magazines and now smelled of urine and refused to bathe.
I took the curtains from the moldy, paneled playroom with the green and gold-flecked foil wallpaper where we whittled soft, smelly wood for numerous Pinewood Derbies.
I took pictures of the closet door where we dutifully recorded everyone's height, including Snickers, our Sheltie, and Nana, who was growing down, not up.
All of it stuffed into boxes and torn plastic bags, which I saved from stores that went out of business years ago: E.J. Korvette's, Arnold ...