People who keep every birthday card, every postcard, and every note their kids ever wrote aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re building physical evidence that they were loved during years when it didn’t always feel certain
· silicon canals editorial team
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The shoebox of saved cards, notes and postcards isn't clutter or sentimentality — it's a deliberate archive built by people who learned that memory alone cannot be trusted to prove they were loved.
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