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Boxed Up Memories

            Every time I clean my room, I have to come face to face with the reality that I am a pack rat. I tend to attach sentimental value to objects and keep them for years and years. I keep ticket stubs from concerts, movies, and sports events, museum guide pamphlets, paper wristbands, receipts and any other scrap of paper I receive at an event. I still have all my cross country sneakers from high school because I ran over 400 miles on each pair and can’t bring myself to throw them away. Their worn out bottoms with no tread, frayed laces, and mud stains are a symbol of every mile ran and how much hard work it took. I also have all my birthday cards going back at least five years, letters from my high school boyfriend, napkin notes my mom packed in my lunch box, and notes written on scraps of paper from my friends in high school. All of this stuff is kept in shoe boxes under my bed, in my closet, or posted all over my bedroom walls. I hoard all of these seemingly insignificant thi