1. I took my baby hand and foot prints to school with me one day. It must have been for show and tell. After school that day, I went with a baby sitter to a grocery store. Later that day, I realized I had lost the paper with my prints on them. The only place we had gone was the grocery store, but we went back and it was nowhere to be found.
2. I inherited 2 vintage Barbies and a Ken doll from my mom. One of the Barbies was a raven-haired pony-tail, in the first style Barbies ever made. My best friend lived right across the street and I mostly played with my Barbies at her house because she had more Barbies and more Barbie accessories. I left my Barbies there. But sometime in 4th grade, my friend unfriended me and my mom's old raven-haired Barbie was forever lost at her house. I heard from a mutual friend in high school that my former friend was particularly proud of my mom's vintage Barbie doll.
4. When I split up with my husband, he somehow - I've never known quite when - slipped a little note into the book I was reading. All it said was, "I love you. A." I folded it half and put it in my wallet and it lived there for years. Whenever I came across it, it would make me incredibly sad, but I treasured it. In 2011, I was mugged and my purse was stolen. It was months before I realized that note was gone forever.
