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Julie Thompson-Dobkin's avatar

memories imprinted in strange ways...the durability of life made possible through the inanimate made animate!

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

I cannot think of another tool with which I have as long and personal a history.

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Laura Shaine's avatar

I was alarmed to see the knife photo- a sign of our times. Good to read the reassuring end

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

Yes! It is scary looking but my father always said the dull-bladed knife is the one more likely to render a cut.

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Verna Gillis's avatar

Human flesh is temporal. Steel is forever

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

Haha. This makes me remember a cab ride with an insane driver who would shout at every jaywalker, Metal is stronger than flesh!

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Esther Merves's avatar

very interesting... such associations

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

There is no implement in the kitchen that has as much "personaility".

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A Leigh's avatar

love it

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

It's funny--the stories you remember.

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Francisco Rivera's avatar

I too have something of my mother’s, a spoon.

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Rebecca Kalin's avatar

I would love to see it sometime. Maybe we can make a batch of brownies with the spoon and cut them with the knife.

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Francisco Rivera's avatar

I’d be happy to show it to you!

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