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[bryant]

I'm sort of having trouble wrapping my mind around this one.

I just got my birthday gifts from my Mom. Among them was something I was actually given thirty-three years ago: a pair of gold diaper pins from Tiffany & Co. with my initials monogrammed on them. Inside the little Tiffany box is a note: "For Bryant, with love from Uncle Alex." That's apparently Alex Haley; yeah, the one who wrote Roots. (Not actually my uncle.)

So surreal.

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[tavella.livejournal.com]

How did your parents know Alex Haley? And what on earth do you do with gold diaper pins?

[bryant]

a) I don't recall, alas.

b) Apparently keep them in their little velvet pockets and give them to the kid three decades later.