Daily writing prompt

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

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Nothing is jumping out at me except the first baseball glove I ever had. My Uncle Freddie gave it to me and I used it from Little League all the way up to when I tried out for the high school team. I eventually got a new one because it was too small and used hard over the years.

I really can’t think of anything else, besides “souvenirs” I would take home from trips to different places– a rock, a pine cone, a shell, or something like that.

Daily writing prompt

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

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I’ve been scouring the bushes trying to remember something that fits here. There was no blanky or stuffed animal. I did save things as souvenirs when we’d go somewhere on vacation– a pine cone, a rock, a shell– and put them in a drawer or a small box.

The one thing that comes to mind, besides the yearly Christmas gift that I often asked for and received (nothing extravagant), would have to be my first baseball glove, received from my Uncle Freddie. I used it throughout Little League, in the back yard, and maybe even up until I tried out for the high school team, though by then I might have had to get something a bit bigger.

For some reason, that gift looms large in my memory. I oiled it and used it and held onto it long after it ceased being useful. I don’t recall what ended up happening to it– whether it was eventually put in the trash or ended up in a bag for Salvation Army. Probably the former.