I love reading your book Xie. Something you said about storing stuff for dead people reminded me of my great Aunt Grace. She lived 95 years with a positive attitude and was such an inspiration to me. I came across a shoe box of hers recently and there were little rocks in it that she had picked up on her travels. Each rock is labeled, in her handwriting...Red Sea, Mt.Of Olives, Mt.Cook..New Zealand, Pyramids, Gaza....well, too numerous to list them all but they are treasures. I can see her picking them up and with adhesive tape, labeling each one at the end of the day.

They are now in a candy dish on my coffee table. We can never know how we will live on in someones memory.