I’m going to need a personal organizer to help me organize all the objects I am beginning to accumulate from this project! On same day, two boxes, one containing a notepad and the other a TV arrived (very different ways to fill up the standard size boxes we sent out).
The Panasonic television travelled with the woman who donated this from her mother’s house in Ashland, Oregon to her freshman year at Southern Oregon Sate College to a private university on the east coast to her first two apartments in NYC to an apartment with her husband to her “dream apartment” in Stuyvesant Town. She watched this TV with a screen that she describes as “four Saltine crackers forming a square” until…the digital switchover – the only things that my tv could not survive. I actually considered buying the conversion box for it, a tribute to how long and hard it had worked. But it seemed unpractical. I knew that my husband, whom I had lost four and a half years earlier to cancer, would not have sanctioned such a move. My daughters petitioned for state of the art flat screen and I succumbed to pressure and desire. It was truly difficult to let go of the behemoth (relatively) wedding present tv. But it no longer worked either. Could I have bought a conversion box for it? Yes, but it was time to move into the present.
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