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People who keep their childhood books in a box they never open aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re protecting evidence that a version of them existed before anyone needed anything from them

People who keep their childhood books in a box they never open aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re protecting evidence that a version of them existed before anyone needed anything from them

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The box of childhood books in the attic isn't clutter and it isn't nostalgia. It's a small, deliberate archive of a self that existed before adulthood asked it to be useful.

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