virtual memorials for inanimate objects
Friday, March 23, 2007
  Black Kid Fur-Lined Gloves

My father took a tracing of my hands with him to Hungary and came back with these beautiful gloves for me. They kept my hands toasty through 2 1/2 nasty Canadian winters, but one day, as I rode the train from school to meet the man who would eventually become my husband, they were lost. Equivalent exchange, perhaps?

I kept checking with the lost and found, but wasn't overly shocked that they were never turned in. I hope they were picked up and loved by someone who really needed them.

Last seen January 8, 2003, at the Bay subway station.

ja'ne, Toronto, Canada

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Previous Memorials
  • Baby Cradle
  • Stories from Event Horizon
  • Set of Vinyl Monster Miniatures
  • Book of Poems
  • Silver Ring with Light Green Stone
  • Labyrinth Pendant
  • Marks & Spencer Raincoat
  • VOLVO Jacket
  • Blue Bird Brooch
  • Little White Fluffy Kitty Doll


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    Other Links
  • The Seven Things Project
  • How To Find Lost Objects
  • LOST Magazine | Where Loss is Found
  • Collecting Loss: Weaving Threads of Memory
  • This Was Lost, This Was Found
  • Lost and Found | The Found Bin
  • Found Magazine
  • Group Hug
  • Lost Something?
  • Evocative Objects | Sherry Turkle


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