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Why family artifacts feel both precious and meaningless

I am cleaning out my childhood home and every drawer holds some small thing my parents saved that meant nothing to anyone but them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between personal meaning and universal value reveals the solitary nature of most human experience.

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