1. I'm not sure. I have several heirlooms handed down through my grandparents and I suppose they had it handed down to them. Somewhere along the line the details have been lost. I know I have several pieces of furniture, small ivory boxes and jewellery, and lots of old photographs stored away.
2. That would be some photographs from the day I was born, I imagine. But, thinking of objects, probably my old teddy who has been around since I was 4.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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