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opinionista:
I have a small compact double mirror with geometric patterns on one side that my ex boyfriend gave me as a birthday present. I don't really need a memento to remember him because we're still friends, and see each other regularly, but it's very beautiful and useful, so I always carry it in my bag.

But the best memento I have is from my dear grandmother who passed away 14 years ago. It's a couple of slippers (feet mittens?), she knitted for me so I wouldn't be cold when I went to school to Madison, Wisconsin in 1987.

ednbarby:
I haven't kept anything to remind me of any of my ex-boyfriends, save for a couple of prom pictures of my first boyfriend and I that my Mom had saved for years and that I found after she died.  But those are more mementos of her than of him.

I still have lots of things my mother gave me:  an antique cruet (miniature pitcher) she got for me at a thrift shop for Christmas one year, the square wooden jewelry box she made another Christmas, the top of which she carved a kaleidoscope-like design into by hand, and a whole box of letters she wrote to me when I was away in college.  I also have the gold Mother's ring my brothers and I gave her for Mother's Day in 1984 with two aquamarines and a peridot set in it.  I also have a whole small chest full of photographs of her when she was a kid with her family, then of when she and my Dad were first married, then when all of us were babies and then small children.  I have a handful of her in later days, but all those earlier ones were much happier.

I have really old photographs of my paternal grandparents when each of them was just a kid, then when they were first married and my Dad was little, too.  And I have the 24-carat gold chain and tiny cross my grandmother gave to me when I was baptised in her church at 14.

Other than the disk that contains all of the photos we've ever taken of our son and a few framed photographs of Ed and me at various points in our marriage, those are all my most cherished material possessions.  Those and the first shirt Will ever wore home from the hospital that is so tiny, it looks like something that would fit an old-fashioned baby doll.  Come to think of it, if the house were on fire and we were all out and safe, I think above all I might risk my life (within reason) to save that shirt and my mother's letters.

Kd5000:
Some driftwood and some shells we found on the beach together when we were in Provincetown,MA together 15 years ago.  I still keep it.  We've long since parted company. That driftwood moves with me everytime I relocate.

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