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Why clearing out work memorabilia feels like deleting yourself

I finally cleaned out my office and threw away forty years of memos and files and I felt like I was erasing my whole life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Physical artifacts of past productivity become confused with evidence of existence itself.

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