Of course, these aren’t essential to have in order to properly honor someone’s memory, but if you do have them, you bet that you’ll be keeping them close and keeping them safe.
That’s why this teen was stunned when her stepmother insisted on discarding all of her mother’s things, her mother had passed some years before, and the jealous stepmother had never gotten over the fact that there had been another woman in their lives before her. She very ungraciously treated the memory of her mother and their things, forcing the teen’s father to throw everything away. When the teen rescued the belongings from the trash, it started a feud that sent the teen running to this online community for their advice.
