For many years, I used to collect corks from favorite bottles of wine. At first it was only natural corks, but as some of my favorite wines started to come with artificial ones, those became part of the mix as well. Then, as I became more obsessive about preserving our memories and record-keeping (see: blog) we began to write little notes on our corks so we’d have some idea about when and why we’d saved them (E.g., Veuve Clicquot cork, “engaged, 12/9/05”). By the time we were ready to move to New York from Los Angeles, we had more corks than I knew what to do with. Ashley suggested we take a photograph and then leave them behind–the first of which I did; I used it for our wedding website. But still I was loathe to throw them away.
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