There is a story about these two cake tins.
The older one in the back was my mother's 'button box'.
I can remember running to get it for Mom and helping to find a matching button needed for the moment.
It was the one thing I asked for when she passed.
The newer brighter identical box I found in the back corner of a thrift shop 2 weeks after she passed.
It seemed a message from her, 'Hold onto the Past but make the future your own.
They sit in my little curio cabinet now together.
I have never taken one single button from her box..
Just wouldn't seem right.
The new box, well the new box holds things that are important to me.
If others were to look inside they would have no idea why I've kept them..
But that doesn't really matter, there are only 2 people who need to know...
Mom and I,
And I know she does..
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